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Hartford Toll Bridge (1810)
Description
First bridge built across Connecticut River in Hartford; opened April 24, 1810. Carried away in March 1818. A new, covered bridge was built later that year.Facts
- Overview
- Timber arch bridge connecting the towns of Hartford and East Hartford.
- Location
- Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1810; swept away in an ice freshet in March, 1818.
- Design
- A wooden deck truss, resting on 5 piers, with low solid board sides, the roadway resting on wooden arches spanning from pier to pier.This was a toll bridge; the toll house stood on the north side of the central pier. There was a heavy grade from each end to the center.
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 160.0 ft.
Total length: 974.0 ft.
Deck width: 25.0 ft.
- Also called
- Hartford Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.76960, -72.66518 (decimal degrees)
41°46'11" N, 72°39'55" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/694066/4626830 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hartford North
- Inventory number
- BH 80158 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Related Bridges
- Hartford Toll Bridge (1818) (Successor)
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Crossing the Connecticut; an account of the various public crossings of the Connecticut River at Hartford since the earliest times, together with a full description of Hartford bridge; fully illustrated with excellent half-tone reproductions : Wright
- Chester Gehman - gehmanc2000 [at] yahoo [dot] com
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