The Willow Creek Bridge, which brought a Pierce County, Nebraska road over Willow Creek, about miles south of Foster, Nebraska, was built in 1913. It is a Lattice truss bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The bridge was moved to Gilman Park in Pierce, Nebraska in 1994.

The bridge has a single span and supports a roadway. Its floor is a timber deck over I-beam stringers and it is of steel, rigid-connected lattice pony truss construction with latticed guardrails.

Willow Creek Bridge

Although probably a number of similar structures were built on secondary roads in Nebraska in the early 1900s, only this and another also built by Canton Bridge Company, and also crossing Willow Creek in Pierce County, were surviving in 1992. Its NRHP nomination summarized: "In a well-preserved state, this bridge is technologically significant as one of the last remaining examples in the state of this early vehicular truss type."

Willow Creek Bridge

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Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Nebraska

Buildings and structures completed in 1913

Buildings and structures in Pierce County, Nebraska

Transportation in Pierce County, Nebraska

Steel bridges in the United States

Lattice truss bridges in the United States

Willow Creek Bridge