Green Sergeant's Covered Bridge is a wooden
covered bridge
A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered woo ...
over the
Wickecheoke Creek
Wickecheoke Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Delaware River in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Hunterdon County, New Jersey in the U ...
near the border between the
Hunterdon Plateau
Hunterdon Plateau is a plateau in western Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It borders the higher Musconetcong Mountain to the northwest, the Delaware River to the west, Amwell Valley to the south and the lower lying areas of the Newark Basin to the ...
and
Amwell Valley
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located in
Delaware Township,
Hunterdon County, New Jersey
Hunterdon County is a county located in the western section of the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the county's population was 128,947, making it the state's 18th-most populous county,[National Register of Historic Places
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on November 19, 1974 for its significance in engineering and transportation (the
Scarborough Bridge in
Cherry Hill is the only other covered bridge in New Jersey).
[ With ] It was added as a
contributing property
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distri ...
to the
Covered Bridge Historic District in 1999.
History
In 1805, Charles Sergeant bought the property in the area. After his death in 1833, the property was inherited by his son, Richard Green Sergeant, the namesake of the bridge. The bridge was constructed in 1872, designed by Charles Ogden Holcombe of
Lambertville.
After being damaged in 1960, it was dismantled and replaced with a modern bridge.
[Green Sergeant's Covered Bridge Association, onsite descriptions] In 1961, due to public outcry, the bridge was rebuilt from the original materials.
The bridge has been damaged numerous times over the course of its history by vehicles striking the bridge structure, most recently in 2013 when a truck damaged the support beams of the bridge.
Gallery
File:Green Sergeant's Covered Bridge from CR 604.jpg, Front of the eastern side of the bridge as seen from Rosemont-Ringoes Road ( CR 604)
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