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The Turn-of-River Bridge, also known as Old North Stamford Road Bridge, is a single-span
lenticular pony truss A truss is an assembly of ''members'' such as beams, connected by ''nodes'', that creates a rigid structure. In engineering, a truss is a structure that "consists of two-force members only, where the members are organized so that the assembl ...
bridge built by the
Berlin Iron Bridge Company The Berlin Iron Bridge Company was a Berlin, Connecticut company that built iron bridges and buildings that were supported by iron. It is credited as the architect of numerous bridges and buildings now listed on the U.S. National Register of His ...
in 1892. It was listed on the
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in 1987. It formerly brought the Old Stamford Road across the
Rippowam River The Rippowam River is a river in Fairfield County, Connecticut and Westchester County, New York (United States). It drains a watershed area of and flows for from Ridgefield to Long Island Sound, which it enters in Stamford's harbor. Stream ...
, but is now open only to pedestrian traffic, as the road ends shortly before the bridge. The bridge uses the design patented by William O. Douglas in 1878 for a lens-type
truss bridge A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements, usually forming triangular units. The connected elements (typically straight) may be stressed from tension, compression, or ...
, and is built out of wrought and cast iron, with pin connections, and has a concrete deck. It rests on stone abutments, and has a total span of . It is one of only about twenty lenticular truss bridges remaining in the state. and It is now open only to pedestrian traffic.


See also

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List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in Connecticut This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Bridges See also * List of bridges of the Merritt Parkway *List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecti ...
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List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut This is a list of bridges and tunnels on the National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. state of Connecticut. References {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Bridges On The National Register Of Historic Places In Connecticut Connecticut Bridges ...
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Stamford, Connecticut This is a list of the properties and historic districts in Stamford, Connecticut that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordin ...


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* Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Connecticut Bridges completed in 1892 Buildings and structures in Stamford, Connecticut Historic American Engineering Record in Connecticut Truss bridges in the United States Bridges in Fairfield County, Connecticut National Register of Historic Places in Fairfield County, Connecticut {{Connecticut-bridge-struct-stub