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PW - Crook Point Drawbridge

Providence County, Rhode Island

Photos 

PW Seekonk River Bridge

Photo by rprata

License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA)

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BH Photo #305867

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Description 

Former Providence, Warren & Bristol Railroad, later absorbed into the New Haven. Abandoned by the P&W in the 1980s when the East Providence branch was severed from the NEC by the downtown reconstruction project.

Tucked into the state’s latest 10-year transportation improvement plan known as RhodeWorks, which became law in 2016, $6 million is earmarked to demolish the Crook Point Bridge in 2026-27.

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/providence/an-attractiv...

Facts 

Overview
Abandoned warren through truss bridge over Seekonk River on Providence & Worcester Railroad
Location
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island
Status
Derelict/abandoned Raised
Future prospects
Tucked into the state's latest 10-year transportation improvement plan known as RhodeWorks, which became law in 2016, $6 million is earmarked to demolish the Crook Point Bridge in 2026-27.
History
Built 1906
Builder
- Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
Railroads
- New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (NH)
- Providence & Worcester Railroad (PW)
Design
Warren through truss rolling lift
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 134.0 ft.
Also called
P&W - Seekonk River Drawbridge
NH - Seekonk River Drawbridge
NH - Crook Point Drawbridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+41.82386, -71.38524   (decimal degrees)
41°49'26" N, 71°23'07" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
19/301909/4632970 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Providence
Inventory number
BH 61036 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Abandoned (3,650)
Bascule (1,062)
Built 1906 (622)
Built during 1900s (7,223)
Doomed (1,073)
Have street view (26,947)
Movable (2,972)
Navigable waterway (2,152)
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (511)
Providence & Worcester Railroad (60)
 Providence County, Rhode Island (114)
Providence, Rhode Island (27)
Railroad (15,414)
Rhode Island (193)
Scherzer Rolling Lift Bridge Co. (123)
Span length 125-175 feet (4,222)
Through truss (15,068)
Truss (32,791)
Warren through truss (1,615)
Warren truss (6,564)

Update Log 

  • April 30, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • July 30, 2019: Photo imported by Alexander D. Mitchell IV
  • March 7, 2019: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
  • January 12, 2017: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • January 11, 2017: New Street View added by Douglas Butler
  • October 24, 2014: Photo imported by Ian Martin
  • August 8, 2014: New Street View added by Ian Martin
  • June 4, 2014: New photo from Douglas Butler
  • May 21, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler

Sources 

  • Alexander D. Mitchell IV
  • Douglas Butler
  • Ian Martin
  • Geoff Hubbs
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Comments 

P&W - Crook Point Drawbridge
Posted November 8, 2019, by Nathan Holth (webmaster [at] historicbridges [dot] org)

Learn about local efforts to preserve this bridge and try to save it from demolition here: http://ppsri.org/advocacy/current-advocacy/crook-point-bascu...