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Erie Canal Bridge Lyell Avenue (Old)
Description
In the upstate Western New York in Rochester has once had movable bridges in the early century then these bridge were replaced with fixed bridges but a few lift bridges.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Deck girder bridge over Erie Canal on Route 31 Lyell Avenue
- Location
- Rochester, Monroe County, New York
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built 1916; replaced 1936
- Design
- Deck girder bascule
- Also called
- Knife Bridge
Genesee Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.16470, -77.67619 (decimal degrees)
43°09'53" N, 77°40'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/282446/4782581 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Rochester West
- Inventory number
- BH 62498 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 12, 2019: New photo from Douglas Butler
- November 9, 2018: New photo from Douglas Butler
- July 2, 2017: Updated by Dana and Kay Klein: Sequenced Bridge
- February 2, 2017: New photo from Douglas Butler
- August 15, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler
Related Bridges
- Erie Canal Bridge Lyell Avenue (Replacement) (Successor) - Replaced a bascule draw in 1936
Sources
- Douglas Butler
- OHA Historic Bridge Exhibit - Imagery
- Dana and Kay Klein
Comments
Erie Canal Bridge
This one I moved from Genesee River to Erie Canal Modern path, and I believe in this section was also original. Parts of Canal moved a few times so Can be Confusing. Again Nice find.
Erie Canal Bridge
Dana this location I'm not sure but this bridge was called the Knife bridge on Lyell Avenue in Rochester years ago the internet had a actual picture image posted of Rochester Historic Memory.
Erie Canal Bridge
Doug believe this bridge was a mile or so due west over 2cnd Erie Canal not over Genesee River, concur?
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Dana
This is the bridge that was next to the Whipple truss pedestrian bridge, so what's the info saying about the Onondaga County link below ? is this bridge of West Genesee drawbridge identical with the bridge in Monroe County of Rochester or the Lyell Avenue drawbridge is the same bridge next to the Whipple truss bridge?