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Mystic River Bridge, Spanning Mystic River at U.S. Route 1, Groton, New London County, CT
Summary
Significance: The Mystic River Bridge is significant as an example of the Brown Balance Beam Bascule, an innovative design that raised movable-bridge technology to a new level of refinement in the early 20th century. The bridge also has historical significance because it completed the State Highway Department's improvement program for coastal Route 1, Connecticut's most important "Trunk Line" highway.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1493
Survey number: HAER CT-174
Building/structure dates: 1922 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: after 1955 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Waddell & Son
Thomas E. Brown & Son
American Bridge Company
J. E. Fitzgerald Company
Brown, Thomas E
Waddell, John Alexander Low
Fitzgerald, Patrick
Fitzgerald, Jeremiah
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Location
connecticut, 41.34975, -72.07907
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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
