Cowley – Stone Arch Bridges

Cowley’s Grouse Creek Stone Arch Bridges Part 4: The Later Years

Even with stone obsolete, Cowley county, Kansas, still built a few stone bridges over Grouse Creek, though complications with state laws soon ensued.

The three bridges of Silverdale, Cowley County, Kansas, were once stone arch bridges important to the community, and carried the road to Oklahoma.

Cowley County, Kansas built numerous stone arch bridges over Grouse Creek, which were particularly suited to and popular in the area.

Cowley County, Kansas several daring-span stone arch bridges over the Grouse Creek which set records for the entire state.

Using the state’s abundant native stone, Kansas built many stone arch bridges as an enduring and affordable means of bridging the streams.

At the end of the unparalleled stone arch bridge and culvert campaign of Butler County, Kansas, hundreds of such structures had been built.

The success of Butler County, Kansas in building stone arch bridges influenced other counties across the state as well as builders like Walter Sharp.

After a persistent and unified push by the local newspapers, Butler County began to build stone arch bridges and culverts.

Before Cowley County, Kansas began building its famous stone arch bridges in earnest, the city of Winfield built one at the entrance of Island Park.

The double arch Neer Bridge near Cambridge in Cowley County, Kansas, was built to replace a prior stone bridge built just years before.