Sunday, November 5, 2023

1937 John E. Cox Memorial Bridge over Merrimack River at Centralville, Lowel, MA

(Bridge Hunter broke Mar 22, 2023; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

This bridge is also known as Bridge Street Bridge and Central Bridge as well as Cox Bridge.

I deliberately included some of the old mill buildings that are still standing in Lowell.
3D Satellite

National Park Service, PL&C BOX12_LOWE 9299 Copy2 NPS/Proprietors of Locks and Canals
"Lowellians today refer to this bridge as the Bridge Street Bridge, the Central Bridge, or as the Cox Bridge. Many names were considered for the bridge during and after construction, but agreement proved elusive. It was finally dedicated as the John E. Cox Memorial Bridge in 1986."

Bridges Now and Then posted
The New Centralville Bridge, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1938. (National Parks Service)

Again, I include some of the mill buildings.
Street View, Nov 2020

Elizabeth Thomsen Flickr, License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA)
 
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The original wood bridge was opened in 1826 and was 540' long. It was rebuilt a few times.

LowellWaterways
 This bridge was opened in 1883.

LowellWaterways
American Bridge Company opened this cantilever bridge in 1937 after a flood destroyed the truss bridge in 1936. 'The LED lighting was added in 2018.


One of those mill buildings holds the Boott Cotton Mills Museum. It has preserved some of the old line-shaft driven machinery.
Hank Anderson, Aug 2023



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