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Old Alton Bridge, also known as Goatman's Bridge, is a historic iron truss bridge connecting the Texas cities of Denton and Copper Canyon.Built in 1884 by the King Iron Bridge Manufacturing Company, it originally carried horses and later automobiles over Hickory Creek at a location that once was a popular ford for crossing cattle.
The Alton Bridge was a railroad bridge that carried the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy (later Burlington Northern) across the Mississippi River between West Alton, Missouri, and Alton, Illinois. It was located 100 yards (91 m) upriver from, and parallel to, the Old Clark Bridge. The bridge was built between 1892 and 1894 and was removed ...
The bridge near Alton, Texas. Despite the abandonment of Alton the King Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio built an iron through-truss bridge just south of the town site in 1884, decades after its decline. It was named the Old Alton Bridge after the town and the cemetery.
The Clark Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge across the Mississippi River between West Alton, Missouri and Alton, Illinois. Named after explorer William Clark like the bridge it replaced , the cable-stayed bridge opened in 1994.
Alton Bridge [a] Demolished Swing span: 1894 1985 Former Alton Railroad: Mississippi River: Alton, Illinois, and West Alton, Missouri: Madison County, Illinois, and St. Charles County, Missouri: IL-22: Vieley Bridge Replaced Bowstring arch truss: 1880 1985
Alton Bridge [a] Demolished Swing span: 1894 1985 Former Alton Railroad: Mississippi River: West Alton, Missouri, and Alton, Illinois: St. Charles County, Missouri, and Madison County, Illinois: KS-6: Leavenworth Bridge [a] Demolished Swing span: 1894 1985
The original bridge connecting Alton with West Alton, Missouri, was a two-lane (one in each direction) bridge that had become a hazard for motorists and a hindrance for emergency vehicles. The northernmost bridge in the St. Louis metropolitan area, it was torn down in the 1990s.
The King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company was a late-19th-century bridge building company located in Cleveland, Ohio. It was founded by Zenas King (1818–1892) in 1858 and subsequently managed by his sons, James A. King and Harry W. King and then his grandson, Norman C. King, until the mid-1920s.