Sparkill Creek Drawbridge

Bridge St. over Sparkill Creek, Piermont, New York. County/parish: Rockland.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 28, 1985. NRIS 85000658.

1 contributing structure.

From Wikipedia:

Sparkill Creek Drawbridge

The Sparkill Creek Drawbridge is a historic Pratt Pony Truss drawbridge located at Piermont in Rockland County, New York. It was built in 1880 by the King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and is a single-leaf movable metal bridge. Chains can lift the bridge when an operator turns a crank, helped by counterweights. It spans Sparkill Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River.

The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1994.

A complete dismantling and restoration for $900,000 was completed in 2009 and the bridge now serves as solely a pedestrian bridge. The Rockland County Highway Department was responsible for this historic restoration.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75321508

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