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The Butts Bridge carries Butts Bridge Road ( Connecticut Route 668) over the
Quinebaug River The Quinebaug River ( ) is a river in south-central Massachusetts and eastern Connecticut, with watershed extending into western Rhode Island. The name "Quinebaug" comes from the southern New England Native Americans in the United States, Nati ...
in the town of
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,
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. It is a well-preserved example of a
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, built in 1937, late in the state's regular use of steel truss bridge designs. The bridge is also known as Bridge No. 1649 and carries an average of 2,300 vehicles per day as of 2011. It was listed on the
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in 2010.


Description and history

The Butts Bridge is located in a rural setting of southeastern Canterbury, spanning the Quinebaug River in a roughly east–west orientation. The bridge is a single-span steel
Parker truss A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements, typically straight, may be stressed from tension, compression, or ...
design that typifies truss bridges of the early automotive age. It is long, and is between the centers of the trusses. The trusses are mounted on concrete abutments, and the roadway is supported by concrete decking. The bridge is at least the fourth to stand in this general area, which has been on the route of a road between
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and Plainfield since colonial days. Earlier wood-frame bridges and wrought iron
lenticular truss A truss is an assembly of ''members'' such as beams, connected by ''nodes'', that creates a rigid structure. In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assembla ...
bridges were probably located further downstream, but their sites have not been located. The bridge this one replaced in 1936-37 was located just upstream; traces of its abutments survive. This bridge was completed in 1937 by the
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company using designs by the
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. It was built as part of the Highway Department's emergency relief program after major flooding in 1936.


Gallery

File:Butts Bridge Over Quinebaug River, Canterbury, CT.JPG, Connecticut Route 668 File:View of Quinebaug from Butts Bridge, Canterbury, CT.JPG,
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from Butts Bridge


See also

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List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut This is a list of bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Connecticut. References

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References


External links

* Connecticut Department of Transportation
News Release: Public Information Meeting - Rehabilitation of Bridge No. 01649
October 15, 2008 {{National Register of Historic Places Bridges completed in 1936 Bridges in Windham County, Connecticut Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut Canterbury, Connecticut National Register of Historic Places in Windham County, Connecticut Steel bridges in the United States Parker truss bridges in the United States 1936 establishments in Connecticut