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Sunbury Toll Bridge
Looking west from Sunbury side
Photo from newspaper, uploaded by Alexander D. Mitchell IV in January 2012
Description
Opened by pedestrians 6 PM Oct. 5, 1907, by horse & buggy 4 AM Oct. 7, 1907. Traffic estimated at 7,500 yearly in 1911, 11,000 daily 1957, and 15-18,000 during Northumberland bridge reconstruction & detour in 1956. Tolls abolished on replacement bridge 1957.Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Susquehanna River on Bainbridge Street (and Sunbury & Selinsgrove Electric Ry. 1912-1934)
- Location
- Shamokin Dam, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, and Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1907 by York Bridge Co for Sunbury Bridge Co. for $150,000, demolished 1927 and replaced by open-deck girder span in 1928
- Builders
- - Sunbury Bridge Co.
- York Bridge Co. of York, Pennsylvania
- Design
- Steel arched-top through truss
- Also called
- Sunbury Toll Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.85441, -76.80563 (decimal degrees)
40°51'16" N, 76°48'20" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/347805/4524164 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Sunbury
- Inventory number
- BH 51038 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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