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  • Historic bridge restoration expert Vern Mesler, right, leads a riveting workshop with Jack Porter, left, of the State Historical Society of Iowa, Julie Bowers and Tim Weitzel of the Iowa Department of Economic Development in Montezuma on June 30.  Bowers' organization, the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association, brought in historic bridge restoration expert Vernon Mesler to instruct Bowers and other friends of the McDowell Bridge so that they would be able to provide much of the necessary labor needed to restore the bridge.
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  • Julie Bowers practices her rivet gun technique during a metals workshop in Montezuma on June 30.  Bowers' organization, the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association, brought in historic bridge restoration expert Vernon Mesler to instruct Bowers and other friends of the McDowell Bridge so that they would be able to provide much of the necessary labor needed to restore the bridge.
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  • Julie Bowers, executive director of the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association, wipes away tears as she walks away from the edge of the destroyed McDowell Bridge on the North Skunk River at the Millgrove Access Wildlife Area in southwest Poweshiek County, August 15, 2010.  Bowers had been leading an effort to restore the bridge.  The bridge, a bowstring truss, was built in 1883 by the King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and is considered one of the rarest and most historically significant types of bridges in the country.  Damaged by an ice jam in 2009, and flooding this summer, it finally gave way to nature after spanning the river for 127 years.  "I never expected to not see those arches," she said weeping.  "But it shocked me today when the bridge wasn't there."
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  • Julie Bowers, executive director of the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association, takes in the scene from the edge of the destroyed McDowell Bridge on the North Skunk River at the Millgrove Access Wildlife Area in southwest Poweshiek County, August 15, 2010.  Bowers had been leading an effort to restore the bridge.  The bridge, a bowstring truss, was built in 1883 by the King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and is considered one of the rarest and most historically significant types of bridges in the country.  Damaged by an ice jam in 2009, and flooding this summer, it finally gave way to nature after spanning the river for 127 years.  "I never expected to not see those arches," she said weeping.  "But it shocked me today when the bridge wasn't there."
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  • Julie Bowers, executive director of the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association, checks the condition of one of the arches on the McDowell Bridge spanning the North Skunk River in southwest Poweshiek County on June 22.  The arches began to lean last year after the bridge was damaged by an ice jam. The bridge, a bowstring truss, was built in 1883 by the King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and is considered one of the rarest and most historically significant types of bridges in the country.
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  • Julie Bowers, executive director of the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association, wipes away tears as she walks away from the edge of the destroyed McIntyre Bridge on the North Skunk River at the Millgrove Access Wildlife Area in southwest Poweshiek County, August 15, 2010.  Bowers had been leading an effort to restore the bridge.  The bridge, a bowstring truss, was built in 1883 by the King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and is considered one of the rarest and most historically significant types of bridges in the country.  Damaged by an ice jam in 2009, and flooding this summer, it finally gave way to nature after spanning the river for 127 years.  "I never expected to not see those arches," she said weeping.  "But it shocked me today when the bridge wasn't there."
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  • A 180 degree panoramic composite image of the decking and one arch of the destroyed McDowell Bridge partially submerged in the North Skunk River in the Millgrove Access Wildlife Area in southwest Poweshiek County, as seen on August 15, 2010.  The bridge, built in 1883 by King Iron Bridge Company, was one of 19 bowstring truss bridges remaining in Iowa before it was swept away by flood waters on the river over the weekend of August 14.
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  • Julie Bowers meets with the Poweshiek County Board of Supervisors while trying to agree on a contractual restoration agreement between the board and the North Skunk River Greenbelt Association.  The board owns the McDowell bridge and of the land it sits on and the NSRGA needed legal permission to begin the restoration.  An agreement was never struck.
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  • Julie Bowers, left, with other friends of the McDowell Bridge, gather on the bridge over the North Skunk River to discuss restoration plans on June 30.  Plans were in place to restore the 127-year old bowstring truss bridge later this fall.  The bridge was swept away by flood waters six weeks later.
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  • A 180 degree panoramic composite image of the McDowell Bridge over the North Skunk River in the Millgrove Access Wildlife Area in southwest Poweshiek County, as seen on June 30, 2010.  The bridge, built in 1883 by King Iron Bridge Company, was one of 19 bowstring truss bridges remaining in Iowa before it was swept away by flood waters on the river over the weekend of August 14.
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  • Julie Bowers is a fifth generation resident of Poweshiek County and, along with her ancestors, she has known and loved the McDowell Bridge her whole life.  Shown here on the bridge on June 22, she had been leading an effort to strengthen and restore the 127-year old bowstring truss bridge later this fall.  The bridge was swept away by flood waters in August.
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  • Pella native Ronald Rietveld has devoted his life to being a President Lincoln historian and is a history professor at California State, Fullerton.  His personal collection of historic documents chronicling the life and death of President Lincoln is now on display in Pella's historic Scholte House.
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  • m0812flooding - shot 08/11/10 Ames, IA.  Christopher Gannon/The Register  --  Dave Knecht of Ames rides his bike down University Boulevard Wednesday afternoon in Ames.  Knecht was in Ames for the massive floods of 1993 and said today is comparable to that historic flood.  Flooding in Ames, Iowa Wednesday, August 11, 2010 from the flooded South Skunk River and Squaw Creek.  (Christopher Gannon/The Des Moines Register)
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  • RAGBRAI riders fill the roadway on their way into Colo on the historic Lincoln Highway, part of this year's RAGBRAI route.  The Lincoln Highway, built in 1913, was America's first coast-to-coast highway.  The highway stretches almost 3400 miles from New York to San Francisco, crossing the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California.
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  • Riders roll into Colo on the historic Lincoln Highway on RAGBRAI XXXVI.
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  • Dave Knecht of Ames rides his bike down University Boulevard Wednesday afternoon in Ames.  Knecht was in Ames for the massive floods of 1993 and said today is comparable to that historic flood.  Flooding in Ames, Iowa Wednesday, August 11, 2010 from the flooded South Skunk River and Squaw Creek.
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  • A trio of historic Art Deco hotels in Miami's South Beach.
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  • A trio of visitors stroll Roseman Bridge, one of Madison County's six remaining historic covered bridges as Fall colors bloom west of Winterset, Iowa.  ©Christopher Gannon/Ganon Visuals
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  • A trio of visitors stroll Roseman Bridge, one of Madison County's six remaining historic covered bridges as Fall colors bloom west of Winterset, Iowa on October 9.
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  • Beardshear Hall and a historic water tower on the campus of Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. (Christopher Gannon/Gannon Visuals)
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