Uhlerstown, PA – Frenchtown, NJ Bridge
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mars888
N 40° 31.569 W 075° 03.906
18T E 494485 N 4486159
A scenic 950’ bridge across the Delaware River between a great tourist stop, Frenchtown, NJ & Uhlerstown PA. a quaint tiny farm town that grew up around the Mexico Lock on the Delaware Canal. Great views of the river from the sidewalk.
Waymark Code: WMKAB6
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 03/08/2014
Views: 3
"The Joint Bridge Commission purchased the entire privately owned bridge for $45,000 in 1929, and rebuilt the bridge in 1931 saving but the original piers and abutments which were recapped and repointed. The new bridge is a six span Warren truss of through design and riveted steel construction.
By 1840 plans were being made to construct a bridge across the river and the Alexandria Bridge Company was soon established.
The first bridge was a six span, wooden, covered bridge built upon five stone and masonry piers and two abutments. The six spans totalled more than one thousand feet in length and the bridge, completed in about one year at a total cost of $20,000, opened in the early part of 1844. It sustained some repairable superstructure damage in the flood of 1862. It survived near disaster on June 29, 1878, when the Bridge Street business district of Frenchtown was largely consumed by fire." Wikipedia
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