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Saunders Street-Champlain Canal Bridge (Old)
Description
This bridge is significantly different from the original uniform bridge design proposed for Champlain Canal bridges in 1901, but representative of the steel truss bridges built in 1910-1911 to span the enlarged canal.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Champlain Canal on Saunders Street
- Location
- Whitehall, Washington County, New York
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1910; Replaced 1995
- Design
- Through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 174.9 ft.
Total length: 194.9 ft.
Deck width: 16.7 ft.
- Recognition
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Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +43.55522, -73.40171 (decimal degrees)
43°33'19" N, 73°24'06" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/629095/4823714 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Whitehall
- Inventory numbers
- NY 4418020 (New York State bridge identification number)
BH 74446 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 1, 2018: New photos from Dana and Kay Klein
- September 6, 2018: Updated by Dana and Kay Klein: sequenced
- March 29, 2018: New photos from Richard Doody
- November 24, 2016: Added by Dave King
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- HAER NY-184 - Saunders Street Bridge, Saunders Street, spanning Champlain Canal, Whitehall, Washington County, NY
- Richard Doody
- Dana and Kay Klein