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Rock Road or Wakenda Creek, Carroll County

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Inventory Number: MO/25-17-01x
County: Carroll County
Township:
Town/Village: Carrollton
Bridge Name: Rock Road or Wakenda Creek
Crosses: Wakenda Creek
Truss type:
Spans:
Length: c100'
Roadway Width:
Built: c1869
Builder:
When Lost: 1919
Cause: Replaced
Latitude: N39 20.796
Longitude: W093 29.755
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Directions: South Main St. in Carrollton.

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Comments:
Per The Weekly Caucasian (Lexington), March 20, 1869, the large covered bridge on the pike to the railroad was just about complete. Per the Chariton Courier (Keytesville), January 28, 1898, "The heavy wire bridge across the Wakenda near the residence of Thos. Haney and the covered bridge across the same stream south of Carrollton have both been condemned." According to the Kansas City Times, January 7, 1919, the bridge was built fifty years earlier when the Wabash Railroad agreed to build a rock road from the station to town. It was replaced by a 100-foot-long steel Warren pony truss in 1919. That bridge was replaced in 2000.

Sources:
The Weekly Caucasian (Lexington), March 20, 1869, page 2.
Chariton Courier (Keytesville), January 28, 1898.
Kansas City Times, January 7, 1919, Page 16

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