India Point Railroad Bridge, Spanning Seekonk River between Providence & East Providence, Providence, Providence County, RI
Summary
Significance: The India Point Railroad Bridge is one of 25 surviving swing bridges in southern New England, and one of three in Rhode Island. It is an example of early-twentieth-century bridge truss design in a moveable-span bridge, a type of public works improvement common in the late nineteenth century when rivers were crossed by numerous highway and railroad bridges. It was fabricated by the Boston Bridge Works, the dominant New England bridge building company at the turn of the century, which used an image of this bridge in their advertising as a typical example of their capabilities.
Survey number: HAER RI-54
Building/structure dates: 1902-1903 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Public Archeology Laboratory, Incorporated, contractor
Goldberg, Eric, transmitter
Brewster, Robert, photographer
Adams, Virginia H, historian
Kierstead, Matthew A, historian
Location
Riverside, 41.82399, -71.41283
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html