These are photos of the bridge at Anchor Thread, over the Crosswicks Creek. This is the Iron Bridge I remember growing up in Groveville. The old bridge had a Dedication Plate, stating its date of construction and the engineer and builder, I wish I had a picture of that or at least the information it offered..
This was a Truss Style Bridge, very popular in the late 1800's and early 1900’s.
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There is a wide band of webbed steel that ran the entire span on each side about waist high, this was a guard to keep pedestrians from falling off the bridge. As kids we found that if four or five of us pulled on this with some type of rhythm the entire bridge would shake, that was big excitement in Groveville in the 1950's. It was also a great bridge for climbing, but not me.
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There is a wide band of webbed steel that ran the entire span on each side about waist high, this was a guard to keep pedestrians from falling off the bridge. As kids we found that if four or five of us pulled on this with some type of rhythm the entire bridge would shake, that was big excitement in Groveville in the 1950's. It was also a great bridge for climbing, but not me.
This picture is the beginning of the end for this bridge, the picture of the bridge with the truck on it is the day they began to dismantle the old bridge. The next picture is the ribbon cutting ceremony, this was on the Burlington County side of the bridge an I believe these are Burlington County officials, as I don’t recognize any of them. This was in 1990
This photo below is the bridge today, not as much fun, you can't climb on it or shake it, and no I haven't tried either.
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Contract Awarded (News Article)
Date: 1882-07-25; Paper: Daily State Gazette
Contract Awarded- Messrs. S. Hutchinson, A.E. Hutchinson, and A.B. Scudder, special committee for the Board of Chosen Freeholders on the erection of an irpn bridge over the raceway at Groveville, held a meeting yesterday and awarded the contract to the Penn Iron Company of Beaver Falls, Penna, for $540
I hope you don't mind, but I would like to post your truss bridge picture with a link to your blog on bridgehunter.com
In case you are interested, there is a very similar bridge preserved in Michigan: https://bridgehunter.com/mi/clinton/19315H00011B010/
Sincerely,
Art S.
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