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Trumbull Street Footbridge (1864)
Description
A pedestrian truss bridge built on the Truesdell patent crossing the Park River from the corner of Trumbull and Jewell streets to access Bushnell Park.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Truesdell pony truss bridge over Park River on Footpath to Bushnell Park in Hartford.
- Location
- Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1864; replaced 1915
- Builder
- - A.D. Briggs & Co. of Springfield, Massachusetts
- Design
- Truesdell pony truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.76473, -72.67653 (decimal degrees)
41°45'53" N, 72°40'36" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/693137/4626264 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hartford North
- Inventory number
- BH 80152 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 20, 2018: New photos from Chester Gehman
- February 17, 2018: New photo from Chester Gehman
- January 24, 2018: Updated by Chester Gehman: Added A.D.Briggs as most likely builder.
- January 18, 2018: Added by Dave King
Related Bridges
- Trumbull Street Footbridge (1915) (Successor)
- Tilton Island Park Bridge (Same design)
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Hartford Weekly Times May 17, 1873 - Collapse of Truesdell bridge at Dixon, Illinois
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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If this is a Truesdell patant bridge--and I have no reason to doubt it--then it was most likely erected by the firm of A. D. Briggs of Springfield, Mass. According to the Hartford (CT) Weekly Times of May 17,1873, "In 1863 Mr. Truesdell sold the rights to build bridges in New England to Mr. A.D.Briggs of Springfield, who has erected about 40 of the Truesdell bridges between that and the present time." Lucius E. Truesdell was from Warren, MA, a short distance east of Springfield, which may partially explain why the Briggs company was chosen.