The Sparkill Creek Drawbridge is a historic

Pratt Pony 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 s ...

drawbridge A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of moveable bridge typically at the entrance to a castle or tower surrounded by a moat. In some forms of English, including American English, the word ''drawbridge'' commonly refers to all types of moveable b ...

located at Piermont in

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. 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 Sparkill Creek is a tributary of the Hudson River in Rockland County, New York and Bergen County, New Jersey in the United States. It flows through the Sparkill Gap in the Hudson Palisades, which was created by a fault line which provided the o ...

, a tributary of the

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. ''See also:'' The bridge was listed on the

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in 1985 and documented by the

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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. File:King Iron Bridge Marker.JPG, King Iron Bridge Historic Marker File:Sparkill Creek Drawbridge, Spanning Sparkill Creek at Bridge Street, Piermont (Rockland County, New York).jpg, The Sparkill Creek Drawbridge in 1994

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* Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Historic American Engineering Record in New York (state) Bridges completed in 1880 Bridges in Rockland County, New York Pedestrian bridges in New York (state) Former road bridges in the United States National Register of Historic Places in Rockland County, New York Iron bridges in the United States Pratt truss bridges in the United States 1880 establishments in New York (state) King Bridge Company Drawbridges on the National Register of Historic Places Piermont, New York {{NewYork-bridge-struct-stub