Old Corinth Road Bridge, Spanning Sacandaga River at Corinth Road, Hadley, Saratoga County, NY

Significance: The Old Corinth Road Bridge, a two-span iron parabolic truss, was built in 1885 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, East Berlin, Connecticut to replace a covered timber bridge that crossed the Sacandaga River in Saratoga County, New York. Based on an 1878 patent granted to William O. Douglas of Binghamton, New York, its main span is the only extant half-through truss of the three known to have been built. The bridge represents a period of American bridge building when the shop-fabricated/field-erected metal truss was the dominant structural form of highway crossings in most parts of the country. ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N383
Survey number: HAER NY-292
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 77000981