Pumpkin Hollow Road Bridge
Description
Bridge was actually located on a small section of Pumpkin Hollow Road in Great Barrington. A wooden pony truss of a bowstring nature was built in 1999 as a replacement. Apparently only the trusses were saved and are in storage in Great Barrington.Facts
- Overview
- Bridge over Green River on Pumpkin Hollow Road
- Location
- Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1888; replaced 1999
- Builder
- - Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Connecticut
- Design
- Lenticular pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 58.1 ft.
Total length: 59.0 ft.
Deck width: 11.5 ft.
- Also called
- Hollenbeck Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.18786, -73.41319 (decimal degrees)
42°11'16" N, 73°24'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/631030/4671853 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Egremont
- Inventory number
- BH 61090 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 4, 2016: Updated by Chester Gehman: Added to description
- June 8, 2014: Updated by Chester Gehman: Modified description. Verified wood replacement.
- May 28, 2014: Added by Chester Gehman
Related Bridges
- Pumpkin Hollow Road Bridge (Successor)
Comments
07/21/18
i purchased the bridge-remains from the town and i am working with engineers to re-erect it as an ADA compliant walkway to a rebuilt church on main street. it is being stored at the dump, although people here don't like that word. it should be moved to its final location on main street where it can be visited before winter 2018.
Its a long time, but we can still be optimistic. We've had a Leneticular pony up here in VT has been in storage for 21 years now, but we are on schedule to have it reused on a pedestrian path within the next 3 years. Hope they can find a home for this one sooner!
Rumours are these trusses will be used somewhere-sometime but they have been at the Great Barrington Recycle Center for at least ten years--maybe more. These photos I took a couple of years ago.
Found the saved trusses of this bridge. Looks like they are at an old town dump:
Pretty new bridge but why on earth didn't they fix the old one?!?
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/ma/berkshire/pumpkin-hollow-road/
Very good news. This is a rare type and should be out where it can be viewed and used.