Raymondville Parabolic Bridge
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Raymondville Parabolic Bridge is a historic Lenticular Truss bridge
located at Raymondville in St. Lawrence County, New York
. It was constructed in 1886 and spans the Raquette River
. It was constructed by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Connecticut
. It was closed to vehicular traffic in 1979 and is used as a pedestrian bridge.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1984.
Truss
In architecture and structural engineering, a truss is a structure comprising one or more triangular units constructed with straight members whose ends are connected at joints referred to as nodes. External forces and reactions to those forces are considered to act only at the nodes and result in...
located at Raymondville in St. Lawrence County, New York
St. Lawrence County, New York
St. Lawrence County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2010 census, the population was 111,944. The county seat is Canton. The county is named for the Saint Lawrence River, which in turn was named for the Catholic saint on whose Feast day the river was discovered by...
. It was constructed in 1886 and spans the Raquette River
Raquette River
The Raquette River, sometimes spelled Racquette, originates at Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in New York. long, it is the third longest river entirely in the state of New York....
. It was constructed by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Connecticut
East Berlin, Connecticut
East Berlin is a section of the town of Berlin in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It is the site of the Berlin Fair, an agricultural fair.-The Berlin Fair:...
. It was closed to vehicular traffic in 1979 and is used as a pedestrian bridge.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation...
in 1984.