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The Town Bridge is a historic truss bridge, carrying Town Bridge Road over the
Farmington River The Farmington River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 river located in northwest Connecticut, with major tributaries extending into southwest Massach ...
in
Canton, Connecticut Canton is a town, incorporated in 1806, located in the Farmington Valley of Connecticut in the United States. It is part of Connecticut's Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, Capitol Planning Region and the population was 10,124 as of the 2020 Un ...
. Built in 1895, it is one of only two surviving pin-connected Parker truss bridges in the state. It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1999.


Description and history

The Town Bridge is located in a rural-residential setting of southwestern Canton, north of the village of Collinsville and about west of
Connecticut Route 179 Route 179 is a state highway in northern Connecticut, running from Burlington to Hartland. Route description Route 179 begins at an intersection with Route 4 in eastern Burlington and heads north along the Farmington River into Canton. A ...
on Town Bridge Road. It is a single-span Parker truss, with a total length of about , and a height above the river of about . It has a metal deck covered in asphalt, and carries a single lane of traffic. Its entrance portals are adorned with iron cresting. The bridge was built in 1895 for the town by the
Berlin Iron Bridge Company The Berlin Iron Bridge Company was a Berlin, Connecticut, Berlin, Connecticut company that built Bridge, iron bridges and buildings that were supported by iron. It is credited as the architect of numerous bridges and buildings now listed on the U ...
, Connecticut's leading manufacturer of iron bridges at the time. The bridge is distinctive for a number of reasons. It is the only surviving Berlin bridge in the state that is not of
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 ...
design, which then predominated in the company's production, and is one of less than two dozen Berlin bridges left in the state (out of more than 100 originally built). It is one of only two Parker trusses with pinned connections, a method of connecting the truss members that gave way to riveted connections (also present on this structure) by about 1900. The bridge was built as part of a town program to improve all of its crossings of the swift-flowing and flood-prone Farmington River.


See also

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Hartford County, Connecticut __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places designations in Hartford County, Connecticut. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Hartford Co ...
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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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{{National Register of Historic Places Bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut National Register of Historic Places in Hartford County, Connecticut Bridges completed in 1895 Bridges in Hartford County, Connecticut Canton, Connecticut 1895 establishments in Connecticut