Eagle Point Bridge

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Eagle Point Bridge

The Eagle Point Bridge was a narrow two-lane toll bridge that connected Dubuque, Iowa, with Grant County, Wisconsin. It carried the US 61/US 151 route and used a truss design. The bridge opened in 1902 and closed in 1983 when a new Dubuque–Wisconsin Bridge was built nearby. Toll was 10 cents in each direction, collected on the Iowa side.

Location: It stood about 900 feet south of Lock and Dam No. 11, at the northern edge of Rhomberg Avenue in Dubuque, connecting to Eagle Point Road on the Wisconsin side. It was about one mile north of the present bridge.

In 1968 the highway designation was removed from the bridge and a four-ton load limit was put in place. Although the bridge remained structurally sound after the new bridge opened, some people hoped to keep it for pedestrians or special use, but Iowa tore it down.

A restaurant called Tollbridge Inn was later built at the Iowa end of the site and operated for several years before being torn down for development.

In 1982 the bridge was documented by the Historic American Engineering Record, producing 81 black-and-white photos and 39 data pages about its construction and history.