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Niagara Street Bridge

Erie County, New York, and Niagara County, New York
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Photo taken by James Baughn in July 2009

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Overview
Through truss bridge over Ellicott Creek on Niagara Street in Tonawanda
Location
Tonawanda, Erie County, New York, and Niagara County, New York
Status
Open to pedestrians
History
Built 1909
Builders
- Empire Engineering
- J.B. & J.M. Cornell Co.
Design
Riveted double-intersection Warren through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+43.02101, -78.87662   (decimal degrees)
43°01'16" N, 78°52'36" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/673017/4765336 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Tonawanda West
Inventory number
BH 43068 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

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Built 1909 (474)
Built during 1900s (4,247)
Double-intersection Warren through truss (72)
Double-intersection Warren truss (220)
Empire Engineering (1)
Erie County, New York (73)
Have street view (9,908)
 J.B. & J.M. Cornell Co. (2)
New York (1,767)
Niagara County, New York (32)
Open to Pedestrians (2,084)
Through truss (9,211)
Tonawanda, New York (3)
Truss (23,575)

Update Log 

  • December 4, 2010: New Street View added by Craig Philpott
  • July 27, 2009: New photos from James Baughn

Sources 

  • James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
  • Craig Philpott - cphilpott [at] puc [dot] edu
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Niagara Street Bridge
Posted December 4, 2010, by Patrick Ryan (chaz1028 [at] hotmail [dot] com)

I remember going over this bridge in a car in the early 70's before it was transitioned to pedestrian use only. Originally, the pedestrian walkway was cantelevered on the south side of the bridge and the deck made up of boards- very freaky for a kid to walk over! It was at this juncture of Ellicott Creek and Tonawanda Creek that the Erie Canal was dug on it's way south to Buffalo, along the Niagara River.