The bridge was built by Marion W. Savage, owner of the racehorse Dan Patch as part of a railroad extending from Minneapolis to Northfield.
He achieved a level of popularity similar to that formerly held by boxer John L. Sullivan and harness racehorse Dan Patch, and enjoyed later by such sports heroes of the Golden Age of Sports as boxing's Jack Dempsey, baseball's Babe Ruth, tennis's Bill Tilden and golf's Bobby Jones.
The Great Dan Patch is a 1949 American film directed by Joseph M. Newman about the trotting horse Dan Patch.
Dan Aykroyd | Steely Dan | Dan Quayle | Dan Rather | Dan Cruickshank | Dan Brown | Dan Simmons | Dan Fogelberg | Dan Abnett | England Dan & John Ford Coley | Dan Ryan Expressway | Dan Deacon | Dan Reeves | Dan Graham | Dan Burton | Patch Adams | Dan Wheldon | Dan | Dan Savage | Dan in Real Life | Dan Hill | Dan Flavin | Dan Vapid | Dan Sperber | Dan Penn | Dan Bricklin | Patch Adams (film) | Harry Patch | Dan Tyminski | Dan Slott |
After the Dan Patch Line went into bankruptcy, its sisters went to a California traction company while 100 was sold first to the Central Warehouse Company of Saint Paul, Minnesota, in 1917, who converted it to a simple electric locomotive.