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B&A - Whistler Bridge #6
Description
One of the original stone bridges on "Whistler's Western." Bypassed (along with #3, #4, and #5) in a 1911-12 line relocation and subsequently abandoned. Post-abandonment, the bridge was destroyed in a 1927 flood.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Stone arch bridge over West Branch of Westfield River on Original B&A Alignmenr
- Location
- Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and Berkshire County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Demolished
- History
- Built 1840, abandoned 1912, lost 1927
- Builders
- - Alexander Birnie (stonemason)
- George Washington Whistler of Fort Wayne, Indiana (designer)
- Railroad
- - Boston & Albany Railroad (BA)
- Design
- Stone arch
- Recognition
-
Listed as a contributing resource to the Middlefield-Becket Stone Arch Railroad Bridge District
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.30942, -73.01799 (decimal degrees)
42°18'34" N, 73°01'05" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/663350/4686033 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Becket
- Inventory number
- BH 61960 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 4, 2021: New photos from Chester Gehman
- July 25, 2014: Added by Ian Martin