United States Navy Seabees Bridge

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United States Navy Seabees Bridge
2003 bridge on the left, 1937 bridge on the right
Carries	VT 9 NH 9
Crosses	Connecticut River
Locale	Brattleboro, Vermont to Chesterfield, New Hampshire
Design	through steel arch bridge
Opening date	?, 1937, 2003
Coordinates	42°53′02″N 72°33′07″W / 42.88389, -72.55194 (United States Navy Seabees Bridge)

The United States Navy Seabees Bridge is a through steel arch bridge over the Connecticut River located between Brattleboro, Vermont and Chesterfield, New Hampshire. It carries VT 9 / NH 9.

1 History and construction
2 Image gallery
3 See also
4 References

[edit] History and construction

There have been three bridges on this site. The 1937 and 2003 bridges still exist. An earlier suspension bridge was heavily damaged by the 1936 flood.^[1]

The 1937 bridge is still in existence about 10 feet (3.0 m) downstream from the 2003 bridge, and is currently in use as a pedestrian bridge. This bridge won an award in 1937 like the Arrigoni Bridge did a year later (1938) and the French King Bridge did five years earlier (1932).

The 2003 bridge is of similar construction to the 1937 bridge, but built for heavier loads with a wider deck and more road clearance. It uses suspender cables where the 1937 bridge uses thin suspender beams.

[edit] Image gallery

1937 bridge's award plaque

Both bridges from the road of the 1937 bridge, looking up

Suspender cable attach point on the 2003 bridge

[edit] See also

List of crossings of the Connecticut River

[edit] References

^ Whittlesey, Charles W. (1938). Crossing and Re-Crossing the Connecticut River. New Haven, Connecticut: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Company, pp.24-25.