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Gaylordsville Bridge, Spanning Housatonic River at U.S. Highway 7, New Milford, Litchfield County, CT

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Gaylordsville Bridge, Spanning Housatonic River at U.S. Highway 7, New Milford, Litchfield County, CT

description

Summary

Significance: The Gaylordsville Bridge is a single span riveted Parker through truss, a variation of the Pratt truss, one of the most popular steel bridges of the late nineteenth-early twentieth century. This bridge is unusually long for a Pratt truss.
Survey number: HAER CT-32

date_range

Date

1969 - 1980

person

Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator

LeCoff, transmitter

DuBarr, transmitter

place

Location

connecticut, 41.57704, -73.40855

Google Map of 41.5770433, -73.4085463

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Source

Library of Congress

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Link

http://www.loc.gov/

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Copyright info

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