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Skinners Falls–Milanville Bridge

Cochecton, US

Skinners Falls–Milanville Bridge

The Skinners Falls–Milanville Bridge was a bridge spanning the Delaware River between Milanville, Damascus Township, Pennsylvania and the hamlet of Skinners Falls in Cochecton, New York from 1902 to 2025. The 466.5-foot (142.2 m) long Baltimore truss bridge carried traffic of Calkins Road (State Rou

te 1002) in Milanville and Skinners Falls Road in Cochecton over a single wooden lane of traffic until its final closure in October 2019. The bridge was one of two bridges on the National Register of Historic Places along the river in Sullivan County (the other being Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct), and was a contributing member of the Milanville Historic District. Replacing a ferry run by descendants of the Skinner family, the Milanville Bridge Company came into existence in May 1901 to establish a new bridge between the two communities. After facing local opposition from competing bridges along the river, the bridge, built by the American Bridge Company of New York City, opened in November 1902. A flood in late March 1904 wiped out the New York span of the bridge, requiring reconstruction of the span. The New York–Pennsylvania Joint Interstate Bridge Commission bought the bridge in April...

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