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Prospect Street Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Abandoned warren pony truss with no verticals bridge over Mill River on Prospect Street
- Location
- Hatfield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Derelict/abandoned
- History
- Built 1891
- Design
- Warren pony truss with no verticals
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.37148, -72.60875 (decimal degrees)
42°22'17" N, 72°36'32" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/696886/4693792 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Mount Holyoke
- Inventory number
- BH 70450 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- Ian Martin
- Massachusetts Historical Commission
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
Comments
Prospect Street Bridge
This is a photo of the only remaining plaque on the bridge. "Springfield" "Mass" and "1891" are fairly obvious. Can anyone identify the builder? The R.F.Hawkins Iron Works and The Springfield Iron Works come to mind. A better view of the shape of the plaque is in the MACRIS photo. Any ideas?
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Its a tough call as it is a pretty generic plate design, but I'd be inclined to go with RF Hawkins just as they were a larger fabricator, and the design looks similar to this one that UMass Amherst has, although I wish there were better pictures:
http://www.ecs.umass.edu/adaptive_bridge_use/bridge_files/re...