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Pine Creek Park Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt pony truss bridge over Pine Creek on a pedestrian path in Pine Creek Park
- Location
- Fairfield, Fairfield County, Connecticut
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built as an approach span to an 1872 drawbridge in Middletown, it was re-used in 1890 to carry Mill Hill Road in Fairfield over the tracks of the New Haven Railroad. In 1979, the bridge was relocated to its current location.
- Builders
- - Jacob H. Linville of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Keystone Bridge Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Design
- As per http://www.past-inc.org/historic-bridges/metal-pinecreek.html:
Its compression members are octagonal columns patented by the Keystone Bridge Company of Pittsburgh. The Keystone column consists of four rolled segments riveted together through cylindrical spacers. Because the spacers are graduated in length, the columns are thicker in the middle than at the ends. According to the company, this gap allowed the interior of the column to be inspected; in some of their bridges, the gap was used to allow diagonal tie rods to pass through the uprights without the need for special fixtures. Principally, however, the gap represented an easy way to make a tapered wrought-iron column that was similar to the cast-iron columns the company had used in bridges like Riverside Avenue. - Dimensions
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Total length: 54.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on April 8, 1992
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.12584, -73.26197 (decimal degrees)
41°07'33" N, 73°15'43" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/645895/4554182 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Westport
- Inventory numbers
- NRHP 92000263 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 49745 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 15, 2021: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
- August 26, 2013: New photos from James McCray
- September 28, 2011: Added by James McCray
Sources
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Wikipedia
- Wayback Machine
- Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Pine Creek Park Bridge
Was the builder in question on this one? This bridge has patented Keystone Columns so I don't think there is a mystery here.
Pine Creek Park Bridge
Chet,
There is no question that this one is Keystone Bridge Co. I have a picture of it in its original location.
Regards,
Art S.
Pine Creek Park Bridge
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Nathan--
Pine Creek Park Bridge was definitely a Keystone Bridge. I only referred to it to illustrate that Keystone was a presence in Connecticut at that time. I still believe the evidence is on the side of Keystone being the fabricator of the Riverside Avenue Bridge. We can all agree more research is needed.