Area less than one acre Architect King Iron Bridge Co. NRHP Reference # 85000658 Body of water Sparkill Creek | Built 1880 Architectural style Pratt Pony Truss Opened 1880 Added to NRHP 28 March 1985 | |
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Location Bridge St. over Sparkill Creek, Piermont, New York | ||
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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