Property Record
21275 KARLSBAD
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | MILWAUKEE ROAD BRIDGE |
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| Other Name: | Sparta-Elroy Bike Trail |
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| Reference Number: | 119091 |
| Location (Address): | 21275 KARLSBAD |
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| County: | Monroe |
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| Township/Village: | Wells |
| Unincorporated Community: | |
| Town: | 16 |
| Range: | 3 |
| Direction: | W |
| Section: | 14 |
| Quarter Section: | NE |
| Quarter/Quarter Section: | NE |
| Year Built: | 1872 |
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| Additions: | |
| Survey Date: | 1999 |
| Historic Use: | stone arch bridge |
| Architectural Style: | NA (unknown or not a building) |
| Structural System: | Masonry Arch |
| Wall Material: | Stone - Unspecified |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | |
| Demolished?: | No |
| Demolished Date: |
| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | This stone arch bridge was built on the land of the Krotzman farm to provide the farmer access to his fields after the raised roadbed was constructed. It sits at the back of the agricultural buildings of the old Krotzman farmstead, which also has a round barn. It is near another stone arch bridge on Keel Road. It is one of two such bridges identified in the survey area of Jefferson, Leon, and Wells (1999-2000). These bridges are near an area of Monroe County known as Tunnel City, where large stone tunnels were built for the railroad in 1872 in the same manner as these bridges. Inspection records at the Chicago & North Western Railway Historical Society archives indicate it was built 1879. It is a 15' span. |
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| Bibliographic References: | Railroad history. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |