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Allenwood River Bridge
Description
Spanning the Susquehanna River at a long-established historic river crossing, the Allenwood Bridge is one of the oldest and longest spans crossing that river. Its builder, the Groton Bridge and Manufacturing Company, was a nationally prominent bridge manufacturer from 1877 through 1920.
-- Historic American Engineering Record
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Susquehanna River on Bridge Avenue (Route 44)
- Location
- Union County, Pennsylvania, and Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1895, replaced by new bridge 1989-90
- Builder
- - Groton Bridge Co. of Groton, New York
- Design
- 11-panel pin-connected Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 966.0 ft.
- Skew angle
- 90 degrees
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.10823, -76.89023 (decimal degrees)
41°06'30" N, 76°53'25" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/341285/4552493 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Allenwood
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 88000865 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 60162 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 8, 2014: Added by Dave King
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- HAER PA-130 - Allenwood Bridge, Spanning West Branch of Susquehanna River on State Route 44, Dewart, Northumberland County, PA
- NRHP Form