Point Pleasant–Byram Bridge
Point Pleasant–Byram Bridge | |
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Coordinates | Coordinates: 40°25′26″N 75°03′42″W / 40.423899°N 75.061733°W |
Crosses | Delaware River |
Locale | Point Pleasant, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and Byram, Hunterdon County, New Jersey |
Characteristics | |
Design | Truss bridge |
History | |
Opened | 1855[1] |
Rebuilt | 1892[2] 1903[3] |
Closed | August 20, 1955 |
Location | |
The Point Pleasant–Byram Bridge was a bridge across the Delaware River between Point Pleasant, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and the Byram section of Kingwood, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The bridge was a four-span, steel structure that was built in 1903 after several previous predecessor bridges (built in 1855 as a wooden covered bridge[1] and in 1892 as a first steel structure[2]) were wiped away by weather-related incidents. Funded by a private company, the bridge was tolled until February 13, 1919 when the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission paid the owners for the bridge.[4] One of the most modern on the river, the bridge was the first bought in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. Flooding from Hurricane Connie and Hurricane Diane in 1955 wiped away the bridge once again, along with three others along the river. Unlike the Yardley–Wilburtha and Portland–Columbia Pedestrian Bridge, the Point Pleasant–Byram Bridge was never replaced and the piers remain in the Delaware River.[5]
Bibliography[]
- Dale, Frank Talbot (2003). Bridges Over the Delaware River: A History of Crossings. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0813532132.
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External links[]
- Media related to Point Pleasant–Byram Bridge at Wikimedia Commons
- Bridges completed in 1855
- 1855 establishments in New Jersey
- Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission
- Bridges over the Delaware River
- Former toll bridges in New Jersey
- Former toll bridges in Pennsylvania
- Kingwood Township, New Jersey
- Interstate vehicle bridges in the United States
- Northeastern United States bridge (structure) stubs
- New Jersey building and structure stubs
- New Jersey transportation stubs
- Pennsylvania bridge (structure) stubs