Bennett Meadow Bridge

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Mount Hermon Bridge

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This was the older sister (so to speak) of the extant Schell bridge just up the river, using a somewhat similar design and construction method. Built 4 years before the Schell Bridge, Bennett's Meadow Bridge replaced a ferry crossing from which the bridge acquired its name. The bridge, no doubt owing to its large span length, survived the Great Flood of 1936 but couldn't survive modernization efforts and was replaced with a Steel Stringer bridge in 1969.

Facts

Overview: Lost Pennsylvania through truss bridge over Connecticut River on Great Meadow Road in Northfield
Location: Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts
Status: Replaced by a new bridge
History: Built 1899 by New Jersey Steel & Iron Co.; Replaced 1969
Builders: - Edward S. Shaw of Boston, Massachusetts (Design)
- New Jersey Steel & Iron Co. of Trenton, New Jersey (Fabrication & Erection)
Design: 3 span Continuous Through truss. River span was a Pennsylvania through truss, Approach spans Warren through trusses
Dimensions: Length of largest span: 360.0 ft.
Total length: 572.0 ft.
Also called: Mount Hermon Bridge
Northfield Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude: +42.68554, -72.47319 (decimal degrees)
42°41'08" N, 72°28'23" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates: 18/707008/4728991 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:: Northfield
Inventory number: BH 79210 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Update Log

June 5, 2021: New photos from Dave King
May 21, 2020: New photo from Chester Gehman
November 1, 2017: Added by Michael Quiet

Related Bridges

Schell Bridge (Same design) - Refined design

Sources

Overview of construction methods - Engineering article from 1899
Michael Quiet - mquiet [at] gmail [dot] com
Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com