Vincennes Bridge Company

The Vincennes Bridge Company, based in Vincennes, Indiana, was a designer and builder of bridges that was "one of Indiana's 'most successful bridge-building firms'".[1]:12

It was founded by three schoolteachers in 1898. The firm produced more than 1200 bridges per year by 1920.[1]:12,13 The firm reincorporated as Vincennes Steel Company in 1932.[2]:5 The Vincennes Steel Company ceased to exist by 2006, when its assets were folded into Wabash Steel, Inc..[3]

A number of its works are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.[4][5]

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Interstate 95 Gold Star Memorial Bridge crossing the Thames River - New London, Connecticut

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