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NH - Mine Brook Arch
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MineBrook 01
Photo taken by Chester Gehman in November 2016
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BH Photo #369167
Description
Stone arch/culvert carrying Mine Brook under the Air Line in the Cobalt section of East Hampton. The railbed was abandoned in 1965 and will eventually be converted into the Airline State Park Trail.
Update Log
- November 5, 2016: New photos from Chester Gehman
- April 26, 2015: Added by Ian Martin
Sources
- Ian Martin
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
The Mine Brook arch was built in 1898 when the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad decided to fill in the wrought iron Cobalt Viaduct, originally built in 1873. The arch had to be built to allow Mine Brook to pass under the filled in viaduct. The project took most of 1898 to complete. The Cobalt Viaduct was the first, and smallest, of three iron viaducts on the Airline to be filled in. The much larger Rapallo and Lyman viaducts, a few miles further east, would be filled in in 1912/1913. Like the Rapallo and Lyman viaducts, the Cobalt Viaduct is still there, buried under tons of sand and cinders.