Minortown Road Bridge
The Minortown Road Bridge is a historic lenticular pony truss bridge in northeastern Woodbury, Connecticut. It spans the Nonewaug River, connecting U.S. Route 6 in Connecticut, U.S. Route 6 (US 6) to Minortown Road and Mill Road. Built in 1890 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, it is one a small number of surviving lenticular truss bridges in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. Description and history The Minortown Road Bridge is located in a rural setting of northeastern Woodbury, just south of US 6. It is oriented roughly north-south across the Nonewaug River, which is flanked by US 6 to the north and Minortown and Mill Roads to the south. The bridge is a single-span wrought iron lenticular truss, long. The trusses are mounted in concrete abutments land on top of the original rubblestone abutments. They no longer carry the active load of the single lane of traffic, which is now supported by a modern timber beam bridge what ...
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