Sparkill Creek Drawbridge
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Sparkill Creek Drawbridge is a historic Pratt Pony Truss
drawbridge
located at Piermont
in Rockland County, New York
. It was built in 1880 by the King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland Ohio and is a single-leaf movable metal bridge. It spans Sparkill Creek
, a tributary of the Hudson River
.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1985.
A complete dismantling and restoration for $900,000 was recently completed and the bridge now serves as solely a pedestrian bridge.
Truss bridge
A truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected elements which may be stressed from tension, compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads. Truss bridges are one of the oldest types of modern bridges...
drawbridge
Drawbridge
A drawbridge is a type of movable bridge typically associated with the entrance of a castle surrounded by a moat. The term is often used to describe all different types of movable bridges, like bascule bridges and lift bridges.-Castle drawbridges:...
located at Piermont
Piermont, New York
Piermont is a village in Rockland County, New York, United States. Piermont is in the town of Orangetown, located north of the hamlet of Palisades; east of Sparkill and south of Grand View-on-Hudson, on the west bank of the Hudson River. The population was 2,607 at the 2000 census.The village's...
in Rockland County, New York
Rockland County, New York
Rockland County is a suburban county 15 miles to the northwest of Manhattan and part of the New York City Metropolitan Area, in the U.S. state of New York. It is the southernmost county in New York west of the Hudson River, and the smallest county in New York outside of New York City. The...
. It was built in 1880 by the King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland Ohio and is a single-leaf movable metal bridge. It spans Sparkill Creek
Sparkill Creek
Sparkill Creek, located in Rockland County, New York and Bergen County, New Jersey, is eight miles long and begins from rain on Clausland Mountain in Orangetown, New York...
, a tributary of the Hudson River
Hudson River
The Hudson is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York. The highest official source is at Lake Tear of the Clouds, on the slopes of Mount Marcy in the Adirondack Mountains. The river itself officially begins in Henderson Lake in Newcomb, New York...
.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1985.
A complete dismantling and restoration for $900,000 was recently completed and the bridge now serves as solely a pedestrian bridge.
External links
- Sparkill Creek Drawbridge, Spanning Sparkill Creek at Bridge Street, Piermont, Rockland, NY: 6 photos and 1 data page, at Historic American Building Survey