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Prescott Yard Bridge over Eastern Canal
Photos
Teetering Penstock & Foot Trestle
Photo by weirdpix
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND)
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BH Photo #323735
Description
Spanning the Eastern Canal, south of East Merrimack Street, the Prescott Yard Railroad Bridge was built to connect the Prescott Storehouses with the main millyard. Since the initial development of the millyard, this site has been occupied by a railroad bridge, the first one of which may have been a wooden bridge of Towne-lattice-truss construction (See Fig. 3 of Prescott Manufacturing
Company—General History). The present bridge, perhaps only the second on this site, probably dates from 1890 when the old Prescott Storehouse was demolished and replaced by a large storehouse. By 1911, the present bridge is shown on the millyard's Insurance Survey (See Figs. 1 & 9 of Prescott Manufacturing
Company—General History). Changes made to the bridge include the replacement of its original granite abutments with concrete (ca. 1923) and the removal of the railroad tracks which once crossed it (ca. 1930). - Lowell Cultural Resources Inventory
Facts
- Overview
- Warren pony truss with all verticals bridge over Eastern Canal on Pedestrian Path
- Location
- Lowell, Middlesex County, Massachusetts
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built ca. 1890-1911, railroad tracks removed 1930
- Design
- Warren pony truss with all verticals
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +42.64453, -71.30741 (decimal degrees)
42°38'40" N, 71°18'27" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 19/310842/4723922 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Lowell
- Inventory number
- BH 65797 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 30, 2016: New photos from Ian Martin
- April 29, 2015: Photo imported by Ian Martin
- February 1, 2015: Added by Ian Martin