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View To Northwest. Subject Bridge And Its Setting Photo taken by John N. Vogel, August 1992, for HAER |
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View To West Northwest Photo taken by John N. Vogel, August 1992, for HAER |
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View To North Northwest Photo taken by John N. Vogel, August 1992, for HAER |
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.
