Pine Island Drive Bridge

Pine Island Drive Bridge is a Michigan historical marker in Algoma Twp, Kent County, dedicated 2014.

Pine Island Drive, between 10 Mile & 11 Mile Road, Algoma Twp

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The Pine Island Drive Bridge is a rare Michigan example of a reinforced concrete rainbow arch bridge. A type of through arch design, this bridge, built between 1922 and 1924, replaced a steel truss bridge. The low river banks at the crossing of the Rogue River required the supporting trusses to be raised above the bed of the one-hundred-foot span, giving the bridge its unusual form. Designed by Michigan State Highway Department bridge engineer Charles Melick, PE, and constructed by Zeeland contractor Peter Brill, it was described at the time as “beautiful in line” and built by a “master bridge engineer.” Same as Front

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1897 · Southern Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1907 · Map of the original swamp areas of the lower peninsula of Michigan. : 1907. Compiled from… (University of Michigan Library)
1911 · Map of the surface formations of the Southern Peninsula of Michigan (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1918 · Cedar Springs, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1926 · Rand McNally Official 1926 Auto Road Map: Special Around Lake Michigan (The Chicago… (University of Chicago Library, Mapping Chicagoland · CC BY-NC 4.0, used by permission)

Southern Michigan, 1897, covering the location of Pine Island Drive Bridge, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Southern Michigan, 1897, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Pine Island Drive Bridge

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