The crossing was served by a ferry in and a pontoon bridge by The cost of maintaining the bridge soon became a burden for the community, which lobbied to have Minnesota and Wisconsin take over that responsibility. In addition, by the early twentieth century, the bridge was becoming obsolete. This led the state highway departments to build a new steel bridge in with a vertical-lift span to accommodate river traffic.
The environmental group argued the park service violated its own rules to ensure protection of the St. Croix River. Walter Mondale, D-Minn. The St. Croix was one of the original eight rivers protected by the law. In addition, the bridge and concourse are located within the Stillwater Cultural Landscape District. The concrete repairs were carefully completed using treatment methods designed to match the historic concrete, involving use of test panels to match color and surface treatment.
In , vehicular traffic was switched from the Lift Bridge to the new St. Croix Crossing bridge. It consists of seven fixed-steel truss spans 1, feet long in total, including the vertically lifting span, which is feet long. Traffic into Stillwater often backed up during busy times, and backups worsened whenever the bridge was raised.
The new St. Croix Crossing bridge south of Stillwater opened to traffic on August 2, Repairs and restoration of the lift bridge—one of only two surviving, pre-World War II bridges of its kind—was originally expected to be complete by late June last year.
Roise lives in Minneapolis, but her Swedish immigrant great-grandparents, named Wigren, lived in Stillwater around the turn of the 20th century.
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