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B&A - Whistler Bridge #3
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned stone arch bridge over West Branch Westfield River on Railroad
- Location
- Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and Berkshire County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Abandoned
- History
- Built 1840, Bypassed/Abandoned 1912
- Builders
- - Alexander Birnie (stonemason)
- George Washington Whistler of Fort Wayne, Indiana (Designer)
- Railroad
- - Boston & Albany Railroad (B&A; BA)
- Design
- Stone arch
- Recognition
- Listed as a contributing resource to the Middlefield-Becket Stone Arch Railroad Bridge District
- Also called
- Keystone Bridge C
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.30983, -73.00301 (decimal degrees)
42°18'35" N, 73°00'11" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/664584/4686108 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Becket
- Inventory numbers
- 80000502
BH 55312 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 25, 2014: HAER photos posted by Ian Martin
- January 24, 2013: Updated by Luke Harden: Added photograph.
Sources
- Luke
- HAER MA-154 - Whistler Bridge No. 3, Becket, Berkshire County, MA
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