page_title: Main Street–Black River Bridge
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Main Street–Black River Bridge / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Main Street – Black River Bridge, Main St. over Black River Bessemer Township This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 99001514
context_page_description: The Main Street–Black River Bridge is a bridge located on Main Street over the Black River in Ramsay, Bessemer Township, Michigan, USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
context_section_description: In 1884, the village of Ramsay (now an unincorporated community) began developing around Hubbard and Weed's sawmill on the Black River.  The mill burned in 1889, but by that time Ramsay was home to the company headquarters of and workers from the nearby Castile Mining Company.   At the turn of the century, Ramsay's Main Street was carried over the Black River by an older truss bridge; by the end of the 1910s, the bridge was deteriorating and was a bottleneck for vehicular traffic.  The Gogebic County Road Commission asked the state to help fund a replacement bridge, and in 1922 engineers from the Michigan State Highway Department designed a bridge to span the Black river, designating it Bridge File No. 270103.  A contract for $19,455.14 was awarded to Paul N. Massie of nearby Bessemer, who completed construction in 1923.  Since that time, the Main Street–Black River Bridge has been essentially unaltered, and continues to carry vehicular traffic.
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