An old King
Bridge will have a new home
The
old King Bridge acquired by the Sloan family has found a new home. The trusses
from a 24 foot bridge built by the King Bridge Company in 1887 across
Black Creek for the Town of Byron, New York has been gifted over to the
Woodstock (New York) Land Conservancy and will be placed on property given to
the Conservancy by Allan Edward Sloan on the side of Overlook Mountain. It is in
the process of being rehabilitated and will be placed on the site sometime later
in 2000. Along with the Rosendale Viaduct, this bridge will be the second
remaining bridge built by the King Bridge Company located in Ulster County.
It is a Pratt half-hip pony truss and
was reputed to be one of the oldest wrought iron bridges in Western New York
State. It was ordered by Addison Sands, the highway commissioner of the era
whose name appears on the bridge plate along with that of the King Bridge
Company. For the last 25 years, the bridge was in the possession of Dr. Richard
Fink of Bergen, New York who acquired it from the Sands family.
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