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ICE BRIDGE
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ICE BRIDGE. A term used until the construction of bridges across the MISSISSIPPI RIVER, an "ice bridge" referred to the ice on the river being thick enough to support teams of horses and wagons between Illinois and Iowa or Iowa and Wisconsin.
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Source:
"Municipal Molecules," Dubuque Daily Herald, December 6, 1893, p. 4