Rating:
53692
{80}%
3 votes
Sandy Hook Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Pootatuck River on Dayton Street
- Location
- Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut
- Status
- Open to pedestrians only
- History
- Built 1890
- Builder
- - Dean & Westbrook of New York, New York
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
-
Length of largest span: 120.0 ft.
Total length: 189.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.42292, -73.28186 (decimal degrees)
41°25'23" N, 73°16'55" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/643573/4587131 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Newtown
- Inventory number
- BH 53692 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 22, 2020: New photos from Patrick Gurwell
- February 24, 2019: New photos from Chester Gehman
- September 27, 2016: New Street View added by Dana and Kay Klein
- June 11, 2014: Updated by Chester Gehman: Added categories "Pin-connected", "Wrought Iron"
- June 8, 2014: New photos from Chester Gehman
- June 17, 2013: Updated by Andrew Pearce: Added category "7-panel truss"
- September 28, 2012: Added by James McCray
Sources
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Patrick Gurwell - pgurwell [at] gmail [dot] com