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Oliver Avenue Bridge

Orange County, New York

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Note: The following information comes from the National Bridge Inventory and has not been verified.
Overview
Through truss bridge over abandoned Erie Railroad on Oliver Avenue in Middletown
Location
Middletown, Orange County, New York
History
Built 1895 by the Havana Bridge Works; rehabilitated 1970
Builder
- Havana Bridge Works of Elmira, New York
Railroads
- Conrail (CR)
- Erie Lackawanna Railroad (EL)
- Erie Railroad (ERIE)
Design
Pratt through truss
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 105.0 ft.
Total length: 107.0 ft.
Deck width: 18.7 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.8 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1984
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.45381, -74.43281   (decimal degrees)
41°27'14" N, 74°25'58" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
18/547373/4589291 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Middletown
Inventory numbers
NRHP 84002882 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
NY 2223590 (New York State bridge identification number)
BH 26567 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,557)
Built 1895 (278)
Built during 1890s (2,982)
Conrail (1,554)
Erie Lackawanna Railroad (391)
Erie Railroad (268)
Havana Bridge Works (3)
Lost (24,711)
Lost 2011 (492)
Lost during 2010s (3,279)
Middletown, New York (6)
 NR-listed (2,960)
New York (4,396)
Orange County, New York (115)
Owned by city (5,396)
Pratt through truss (5,387)
Pratt truss (9,292)
Span length 100-125 feet (4,395)
Through truss (15,054)
Total length 100-125 feet (5,169)
Truss (32,768)

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Oliver Avenue Bridge
Posted January 24, 2008, by Kent Findley (kent [dot] findley [at] gmail [dot] com)

This bridge no longer exists - -I have heard from friends it was extensively photographed by the city of middletown prior to demolishion but I do not know where the pictures are or how to get them. If you look on google maps, arial image, you can see the site of where the bridge was, is under construction.