It carried traffic on Lark Avenue over the Des Moines River for 855 feet (261 m).

It was destroyed in a flood in 1903, and the Board of Supervisors put off replacing the bridge until 1907, then all the proposals came over the $20,000 limit.

It was the first large-scale engineering project undertaken by the newly formed ISHC.

[2] The Kilbourn Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

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