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Historic Bridge Restoration Wrought Iron

What’s In A Name

On display: black twisted steel bent to resemble scrolls, welded to spindly round metal stock and labeled wrought iron lawn ...
Historic Bridge Restoration

The American Bridge Company’s Ambridge Works: The Eye Bar Shop

[pp. 10 – 13 in The Iron Age, September 15, 1904] (Re-formatted for clarity by Vern Mesler, Nan Jackson, 2021) ...
"Like Magic" Gale Road Bridge

Gale Road Bridge “Like Magic”

There is nothing more satisfying for craftsmen after months of hard physical labor than to experience a moment when there ...
Brauer Road Bridge

Bauer Road Bridge, Clinton County, Michigan

Small stones crack under the iron straps on the heavy freight wagon wheels, and a light spring breeze creates small ...
A road bridge under inspection

20 Mile Road Bridge

“Township meeting minutes, newspaper chippings, engineering records, historic photographs, and written personal recollections and oral histories. No primary or secondary ...