Bridge L5245, Spans Okabena Creek (formerly carried 330th AvenueTownship Road 187), Okabena, Jackson County, MN

Significance: Bridge L5245 is locally significant under National Register of Historic Places Criterion C in the area of Engineering as Minnesota's only known surviving example of a lightweight, laced top-chord truss, a type of bridge engineering that was obsolete in the state by 1913.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1694

Survey number: HAER MN-133

Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1938 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1972 Subsequent Work

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