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Lenticular Truss Bridge

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1889, Berlin Iron Bridge Company. River Rd. over Pine Creek, 2 miles south of Jersey Shore

Following Jersey Shore's S. Main Street leads to this lenticular truss bridge that crosses Pine Creek. The lenticular truss gets its name from the lenslike shape of its upper and lower chords. It was first used in the United States in 1883 on Pittsburgh's Smithfield Street Bridge, and became popular over the next two decades. Nationwide over one thousand lenticular truss bridges were built, many of them by the Berlin Iron Company, headquartered in East Berlin, Connecticut. This steel through bridge has pin-connected die-forged eyebars and scored concrete abutments. Its 287-foot length is considerably longer than a similar lenticular truss bridge approximately eighteen miles upstream at Waterville.

Writing Credits

Author: 
George E. Thomas
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What's Nearby

Pine Creek Iron Bridge
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Samuel Humes House
Presbyterian Church
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Citation

George E. Thomas, "Lenticular Truss Bridge", [Jersey Shore, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-LY26.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 2

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, George E. Thomas, with Patricia Likos Ricci, Richard J. Webster, Lawrence M. Newman, Robert Janosov, and Bruce Thomas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 579-579.

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