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Sparkill Creek Drawbridge

New York, US

Sparkill Creek Drawbridge

The Sparkill Creek Drawbridge is a historic Pratt pony truss-style drawbridge located at Piermont in Rockland County, New York. Built in 1880 by the King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland, it is a metal single-leaf bridge. Chains can lift the bridge when an operator turns a crank, helped by counterwe

ights. It spans Sparkill Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1994. After a complete dismantling and restoration was completed in 2009 by the Rockland County Highway Department for $900,000, the structure now serves solely as a pedestrian bridge.

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