Silk Street Bridge
Encyclopedia
Silk Street Bridge is a historic Lenticular pony truss
bridge located at Newark Valley
in Tioga County, New York
. It was constructed in 1888 and spans the East Branch of Owego Creek. It was constructed by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company of East Berlin, Connecticut
.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
in 1998.
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...
bridge located at Newark Valley
Newark Valley (village), New York
Newark Valley is a village in Tioga County, New York, USA. The population was 1,071 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Binghamton Metropolitan Statistical Area...
in Tioga County, New York
Tioga County, New York
As of the census of 2010, there were 51,125 people residing in the county, with 22,203 housing units, of these 20,350 occupied, 1,853 vacant. The population density was 98 people per square mile...
. It was constructed in 1888 and spans the East Branch of Owego Creek. 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 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 1998.