57th St. over the Kalamazoo R., Manlius Township, Michigan. County/parish: Allegan.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 01, 1998. NRIS 98000273.
1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The New Richmond Swing Bridge, also known as the Fifty-Seventh Street Bridge, is a one lane swing bridge in Michigan. Located in Allegan County's Manlius Township, it connected 57th Street with Old Allegan Road over the Kalamazoo River until its closure to vehicular traffic. The name New Richmond comes from a former mining town in the area of the same name. The bridge is one of the oldest - if not the oldest - swing bridges extant in the United States, and is one of the oldest metal truss bridges in the state of Michigan and the state's longest pony truss bridge.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/25338831