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NH - Seymour Covered Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bridge over Naugatuck River on New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
- Location
- Seymour, New Haven County, Connecticut
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1849 ; One span removed & replaced by a Keystone span 1879; Other span replaced ca. 1896
- Builder
- - Keystone Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1879 Pratt)
- Railroads
- - Naugatuck Railroad (NAUG)
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Design
- 2 Howe through truss covered spans
1 Pratt through truss (Replaces a Howe span in 1879) - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.39722, -73.07216 (decimal degrees)
41°23'50" N, 73°04'20" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/661161/4584646 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Naugatuck
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 07-05-14x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 72240 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Related Bridges
- MNCW - Naugatuck River Bridge (Seymour) (Successor)
Sources
- Luke
- Lost Bridges - Image + Info
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