Bridge No. 39A - 1925 - Blackwood, NJ
N 39° 47.172 W 075° 04.280
18S E 493892 N 4404030
Another Camden County bridge with its date stone set in the center and another opportunity for pencil pushers and bureaucrats to have their name immortalized in stone.
Waymark Code: WMDJJK
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 01/21/2012
Views: 8
Bridge No. 39A is one of our typical bridges built between the twenties and the thirties. It is made of concrete with intermittent concrete pillars, 4 feet high for decoration. There are sidewalks to walk on either side of the bridge. The date stone is on the left or west side of the bridge if traveling north along County House Road. It can be found at the center of the bridge and low to the ground. I am not sure how to describe the water it crosses except to say on the east side the water is contained in a narrow, concrete barrier/ retaining wall, like a canal, controlled somewhere upstream. The west or let side of the bridge is a lake with a stream running out of it to the west. There are no known official names for the water.
The The polished, black, rectangular stone (slate or granite) reads:
Director
Samuel Wood
Freeholder
Albert E. Batten
Bridge Committee
Fred W. Gercke
Stokes Prickett
Charles C. Durges
C. Leonard Brehm
Henry M. Parker
Country Engineer
J.J. Albertson
Contractor
George A. Charlesworth
Bridge No. 39A
1925
There is a country parking lot, southeast of the bridge, 90 feet away.