Rating:
3 votes
Town Bridge Road Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Through truss bridge over Farmington River on Town Bridge Road in Canton
- Location
- Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1895 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Co.; rehabilitated 1989
- Builder
- - Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Connecticut
- Design
- Parker through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 160.1 ft.
Total length: 171.9 ft.
Deck width: 14.4 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 12.7 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 1999
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.82459, -72.92808 (decimal degrees)
41°49'29" N, 72°55'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/672066/4632375 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Collinsville
- Average daily traffic (as of 2018)
- 220
- Inventory numbers
- CT 5222 (Connecticut bridge number)
NRHP 99000923 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 12115 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of December 2018)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 14.3 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- May 14, 2018: New photos from Chester Gehman
- June 20, 2016: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- July 6, 2014: New Street View added by Ralph Demars
- July 2, 2014: Updated by Chester Gehman: Added NHRP listing
Related Bridges
- NH - Farmington River Bridge (N) (Downstream)
Sources
- Doug Kerr
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
Town Bridge Road Bridge
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The town is deciding whether the repair or destroy:
http://canton-ct.patch.com/groups/politics-and-elections/p/r...
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Passed by on River Road today--restoration has begun. The bridge has been disassembled; parts that can be re-used will be refurbished; parts that cannot will be replaced with steel copies, and the whole thing is scheduled to take 18 months.