1951

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   Citation: 124.679.2-3 (Full image size: 132Kb)

The "Old Iron Bridge"--also called the "Rainbow Bridge" because of its arc shape--over the Skunk River, near Soper's Mill, as it appeared on a Sunday afternoon in the fall of 1951 when photographed by Farwell Brown as he stood on the "new" bridge. His original snapshot was in color and he remembers the vibrant colors of trees surrounding the bridge. The old bridge was built in 1879 and was replaced by a more modern bridge when the road was relocated to the west in the 1930s. For many years the old bridge was preserved in Story County Conservation Park, northeast of Ames, but it was washed out in the June 17, 1996, flood on the Skunk River.

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