Sparkill Creek Drawbridge

Sparkill Creek Drawbridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
File:Piermont Drawbridge.JPG
Sparkill Creek Drawbridge (2013)
Location	Bridge St. over Sparkill Creek, Piermont, New York
Coordinates
Area	less than one acre
Built	1880
Architect	King Iron Bridge Co.
Architectural style	Pratt Pony Truss
NRHP Reference #	85000658
Added to NRHP	March 28, 1985

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.

• King Iron Bridge Marker.JPG

  King Iron Bridge Historic Marker

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  The Sparkill Creek Drawbridge in 1994

See also

• List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New York

External links

• Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NY-289, "Sparkill Creek Drawbridge, Spanning Sparkill Creek at Bridge Street, Piermont, Rockland County, NY", 6 photos