The Iowa Avenue Bridge (1876).
The Folsom Toll Bridge was located at the foot of what is today Iowa Avenue. In the early 1850’s, would-be prospectors gathered here, at the foot of Iowa Avenue, in tents and wagons as they’d wait to ferry across the river on their way to California looking for gold. By 1876, a new iron bridge replaced the long “out-of-service” Folsom bridge, and with it being the nation’s centennial year (1776-1876), the new bridge was called The Centennial Bridge.
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