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Hamden, Delaware County

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Inventory Number: NY/32-13-03x
County: Delaware County
Township: Hamden
Town/Village: Hamden
Bridge Name: Hamden
Crosses: West Branch, Delaware River
Truss type: Long
Spans: 1
Length: 128'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1859
Builder: Robert Murray
When Lost: 2001
Cause: Rebuilt/Replaced
Latitude: N42 11.740
Longitude: W074 59.302
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Directions: 1.5 miles south of jct CR2 on NY10, then just left on Basin Clove Rd.

Hamden Bridge, Hamden, Delaware County, NY Built 1859 Rebuilt 2001
Trish Kane/Richard Donovan Collection

Hamden Bridge, Hamden, Delaware County, NY Built 1859 Rebuilt 2001
Todd Clark Collection

Hamden Bridge, Hamden, Delaware County, NY Built 1859 Rebuilt 2001
Trish Kane/Richard Donovan Collection

Hamden Bridge, Hamden, Delaware County, NY Built 1859 Replaced 2001
Todd Clark Collection

Hamden Bridge, Hamden, Delaware County, NY Built 1859 Replaced 2001
G. Thomas Toy Photo, 1990's, NSPCB Archives

Comments:
A contract to construct the bridge was signed between Robert Murray and the Town of Hamden on April 27, 1859, for the sum of $1,000. It was constructed as a single-span Long truss design. In the 1940s, a center pier was added for additional support. In 1966, the county repaired a lean in the bridge in 1966 by adding two large buttresses on each side. Two new windows cut into each side provided a safe place for young folks to fish and allowed more light into the dark interior. That same year, the bridge received its first coat of red paint. In 1967, the portals had a diagonal appearance, but sometime during the late ’70s or early ’80s the portals were squared off. Rehabilitation of the bridge by contractor W. L. Kline, Inc. began in the summer of 2000. The work included replacement of the tin roof with a standing seam metal roof. Decayed bottom chords were replaced with a single 130-foot glue-laminated chord manufactured by Unadilla Laminated Products in Unadilla, New York. To keep as much of the original Long truss as possible, some truss post members were relocated to accommodate stress levels in different areas of the bridge. On November 13, 2000 the bridge was moved back across the west branch of the Delaware River and the project completed at a cost of $708,000. The buttresses were removed and the diagonal appearance to the portals returned.

Source:
Information received from Todd Clark in March 2010

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