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Photographer: Michael Herrick
Taken: May 29, 2015
Caption: Comstock Covered Bridge Marker
Additional Description: (detail from the west side)The collapse of an iron-truss in Dixon, Ill., on May 4, 1873 killed 50 people, mostly spectators who had gathered on the bridge to watch a baptism in the Rock River. Courtesy of the Lee County Historical Society.
Submitted: June 3, 2015, by Michael Herrick of Southbury, Connecticut.
Database Locator Identification Number: p310206
File Size: 0.227 Megabytes

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