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Riverton-Belvidere Covered Bridge (Pre 1903)
Description
The original bridge on this site was a covered bridge built in 1836. Flooding destroyed that bridge days after in was opened. A new covered bridge was built in 1839 by Solon Chapin. That one was lost in 1903 to flooding and was replaced by a new steel bridge (see BRIDGEHUNTER) constructed on the same piers that held the covered bridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Burr arch-truss bridge over Delaware River on Water St. & Martins Creek Belvidere Hwy
- Location
- Riverton, Warren County, New Jersey, and Northampton County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Destroyed by flooding
- History
- First Bridge was built in 1836; It was flooded days after opening; Next Bridge was the one listed here in 1839; It was lost in 1903 and replaced
- Builder
- - Built by Solon Chapin
- Design
- Burr arch-truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 630.0 ft.
- Also called
- Belvidere Covered Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.82882, -75.08466 (decimal degrees)
40°49'44" N, 75°05'05" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/492861/4519757 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 90147 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 22, 2022: New photo from Stewart Edwin Beitler
- January 3, 2022: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- August 4, 2020: New photo from Art Suckewer
Sources
- Art Suckewer - Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
- Stewart Edwin Beitler - stubear0430 [at] gmail [dot] com