"The original bridge on this site was a covered bridge built in 1836. Flooding destroyed that bridge days after in was opened. A new covered bridge was built in 1839 by Solon Chapin. That one was lost in 1903 to flooding and was replaced by a new steel bridge...constructed on the same piers that held the covered bridge." [BridgeHunter_1904]
"Riverton-Belvidere Bridge was rehabilitated in 2007 at a cost of $8.8 million." [HistoricBridges]
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| Street View, Nov 2021 |
I think the bridge is pin connected.
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| HistoricBridges |
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| Metrotrails posted A view to the Belvidere Riverton Bridge over the Delaware River in Belvidere NJ. The bridge was completed in 1904, to replace the original 1836 covered bridge that washed out in the Pumpkin Flood of 1903. Kathy Bird: The Pumpkin Flood? Metrotrails: Kathy Bird October 1903. Pumpkins were floating down the Delaware. Linda Pempe Schwalbe: The flood of 1955 was much worse. I wonder if the bridge survived that intact or was damaged or replaced? Metrotrails: Linda Pempe Schwalbe it survived fine. M'ke Helbing shared |
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| Metrotrails posted [I never noticed that this dam uses roller gates instead of tainter gates until I saw this photo.] A view to the Belvidere Riverton Bridge over the Delaware River in Riverton Pa. The bridge was completed in 1904, to replace the previous covered bridges that washed out in the Pumpkin Flood of 1903. There has been a bridge on this site since 1836. Metrotrails shared |
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| Robert Hoyt commented on the above post South side of the original covered bridge.... |
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| Mike Dostal commented on the above post |
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