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Poffenberger Road Bridge, Spanning Catoctin Creek, Middletown, Frederick County, MD

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Poffenberger Road Bridge, Spanning Catoctin Creek, Middletown, Frederick County, MD

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Significance: The bridge is a well preserved example of a wrought iron double-intersection Pratt through truss. It is pin-connected at the bottom chord connections and at the upper chord portal connections and at the upper chord portal connections. Its diagonals are joined to the other top chord connections by screw connections. The structure is supported on random coursed stone abutments that appear to date at least to 1878...
Survey number: HAER MD-35

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Historic American Engineering Record, creator
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Middletown View39.44371, -77.54471
Google Map of 39.4437123, -77.5447102
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Library of Congress
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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

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