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Island Old Stone Arch Bridge
an 1883 report by the Chicago, Rock Island &
Pacific Railroad listed only four 30' arch culvert
bridges of which the Shelby bridge was one of them and
has been named the first railroad structure built in
Shelby County.
Most railroad bridges in
Iowa were wood pile or timber attributed to the scarcity
of building materials, but limestone for the trestle was
believed to have come from a quarry in Earlham, Iowa,
not far from the railroads main line in that area.
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Trails
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