A historic truss bridge in Linn County will be demolished and replaced this year, just short of its 150th birthday.
The Bertram Road Bridge over Indian Creek just south of Mount Vernon Road was built in 1876, or at least no earlier than that based on the design patent. It is extensively chronicled at historicbridges.org, which calls it “an extremely rare surviving example of a hybrid truss that combines the Whipple and Pratt truss configuration.”
Linn County’s website says the bridge replacement was contracted out to PCI of Reinbeck in December for just short of $2.5 million, and work is likely to take place this fall.
I stumbled upon this from an unrelated search regarding annexation in Cedar Rapids. It turns out there are individual parcels of land forming enclaves of unincorporated area southwest of the corner of Edgewood Road and 42nd Street NE. The owners of one of those parcels, but only one, petitioned for annexation Sept. 28 (link to large PDF of agenda).