Bowen Mill Bridge, Spanning Pine River on County Trunk Highway AA, Richland Center, Richland County, WI

Significance: The Bowen Mill Bridge is a Pratt through truss. It was erected in 1907, and re-erected at its present location in 1966. Of the thirty-two Pratt through truss bridges identified by the Wisconsin Historic Bridge Advisory Committee as having been built between 1895 and 1910, eight were identified in Cultural Resource Management in Wisconsin, the state's manual for historic properties, as the best examples of that bridge type. The Bowen Mill Bridge is one of those eight, and the only one in southwestern Wisconsin. It is locally significant, therefore, as a unique example of this type and period of construction in Richland County specifically, and southwestern Wisconsin in general.

Survey number: HAER WI-67

Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1966 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1994 Demolished

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