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Looking at the south abutment of the old red bridge over the Skunk River about two miles north of Ames, taken in 1918 following the complete destruction of the bridge in the heavy flood of that year. This bridge ran north-south at a point about a half mile around the river bend to the north of the present (1998) bridge on West Riverside Road. (Photo courtesy of the Iowa D. O. T.)