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Green/Bath Island-Goat Island Bowstring Bridge

Niagara County, New York

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1880 Bath I to Goat I Niagara NY

View of the bridge to Bath Island from the road that leads to it. Buildings that make up a paper mill sit on the other side of the bridge. A support wall runs along the island on the left side of the bridge, and water can be seen running over spillways along the wall.

Image cropped, color balanced and lightly digitally tweaked, source digital image, courtesy of the Getty's Open Content Program, in link

Photo digitally altered by Art S. in November 2021

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BH Photo #512101

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Bowstring pony truss bridge on Goat Island Road over Niagara River
Location
Niagara Falls, Niagara County, New York
Status
No longer exists
History
Built 1856
Builder
- Squire Whipple of Albany, New York
Design
3 span (2 5-panel, 1 7-panel), cast iron bowstring pony truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+43.08239, -79.06671   (decimal degrees)
43°04'57" N, 79°04'00" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/657370/4771777 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 95104 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (8,395)
Bowstring pony truss (350)
Bowstring truss (671)
Built 1856 (41)
Built during 1850s (494)
Lost (28,523)
New York (4,892)
 Niagara County, New York (98)
Niagara Falls, New York (32)
Niagara River (16)
Pony truss (17,017)
Squire Whipple (49)
Truss (35,494)
Whipple Cast+Wrought Iron Arch/Bowstring (29)

Update Log 

  • November 17, 2021: New photo from Art Suckewer

Sources 

  • Art Suckewer - Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com

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