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Beaverkill Bridge, Spanning Beaver Kill, TR 30 (Craigie Claire Road), Roscoe, Sullivan County, NY

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Beaverkill Bridge, Spanning Beaver Kill, TR 30 (Craigie Claire Road), Roscoe, Sullivan County, NY

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Summary

Significance: The Beaverkill Bridge is a distinctive regional variation of a Town lattice truss with fanlike radiating planks in the end panels. It is the best preserved of three surviving examples of this type, all of which attributed to John Davidson, a local carpenter-builder.
Survey number: HAER NY-329
Building/structure dates: 1865 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1958 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1960 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1982 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1991 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1993 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1997 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1999 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 07001038

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Davidson, John
Town, Ithiel
Hunter, John
Civilian Conservation Corps
Sullivan County Department of Public Works
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Federal Highway Administration, sponsor
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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