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Mercer & Somerset RR - Millstone River Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Bridge over Millstone River on Mercer & Somerset RR
- Location
- Somerset County, New Jersey
- Status
- Removed but not replaced
- Railroad
- - Mercer & Somerset Railroad
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.50165, -74.58687 (decimal degrees)
40°30'06" N, 74°35'13" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 18/535005/4483520 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 83511 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 10, 2019: New photo from Art Suckewer
- November 16, 2018: Updated by Dana and Kay Klein: Added category "Mercer & Somerset Railroad"
Sources
- Dana and Kay Klein
- Art Suckewer - Asuckewer [at] knite [dot] com
Comments
Mercer &Somerset RR-Millstone River
To clarify, the pier is a separate entity. I've been meaning to list it and some of the of the cool bridge related remains of the Mercer & Somerset here but haven't gotten to it yet.
Regards,
Art S.
Mercer &Somerset RR-Millstone River
There is debate as to whether the bridge was put in before the M&S folded but there seems to be reasonably strong evidence that it was. However, once the Reading was able to go through, the railroad, a division of the PRR, was taken up west of the Millstone in the late 1870s. That pier has been sitting there, abandoned, since the late 1870s!!
Regards,
Art S.
Mystery Pier Sommerset County NJ
I believe this pier may be the pier mentioned in this: http://njrails.tripod.com/19th_Century/Mercer_and_somerset/M...
Mystery Pier Sommerset County NJ
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This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/nj/somerset/bh83511/
To clarify, the pier is a separate entity. I've been meaning to list it and some of the of the cool bridge related remains of the Mercer & Somerset here but haven't gotten to it yet.
Regards,
Art S.