New Hampton Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by Historic American Engineering Record
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #172120
Description
cross listed as Warren County Bridge at http://uglybridges.com/1368882 cross listed as Shoddy Mill Road Bridge at http://bridgehunter.com/nj/warren/2102225/Essay
Written by Andrew Pearce"New Hampton" is a historical designation for the area, a town that never really existed. This is just one of half a dozen bridges that crosses the Musconetcong River between Rt 31 and Point Mountain Road, but it is the oldest by far, and a lovely little bridge of extreme rarity.
The Musconetcong River is the county line, so on one side of the bridge it's Shoddy Mills Road, on the other side it's Rymon Road; the bridge has at least 3 viable names.
Amazingly, as the river floods almost every year and the other bridges get washed away, this one manages to survive.
It actually gets pretty regular usage too, with a local car or light truck crossing it once every minute or so on most days, yet it has survived all this time with just the most minimal guard rails in place.
Facts
- Overview
- Iron pony truss bridge over Musconetcong River on Rymon Road
- Location
- Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and Warren County, New Jersey
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1868 by the Cowin Iron Works for the Pennsylvania Railroad
- Builder
- - Cowin Iron Works of Lambertville, New Jersey
- Design
- Pin-connected, 8-panel, wrought- and cast-iron pony truss with vertical endpoints
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Rymon Road Bridge
Shoddy Mill Road Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.72048, -74.96351 (decimal degrees)
40°43'14" N, 74°57'49" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/503081/4507729 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- High Bridge
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 2102225 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 45831 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 1, 2013: Updated by Andrew Pearce: added NRHP number and cross-listing hyperlinks
- August 27, 2012: Essay added by Andrew Pearce
- August 7, 2010: Added by James Baughn
Sources
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- HAER NJ-91 - New Hampton Bridge, Spanning Musconetcong River, New Hampton vicinity, Hunterdon County, NJ
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/nj/hunterdon/new-hampton/
Thought I'd post this article here as well, its about the manufacturer:
http://goodspeedhistories.com/the-lockatong-bridge-on-raven-...