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Strimple's Mill Road Bridge over Lockatong Creek

1897 establishments in New JerseyBridges completed in 1897Bridges in Hunterdon County, New JerseyDelaware Township, Hunterdon County, New JerseyNational Register of Historic Places in Hunterdon County, New Jersey
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STRIMPLE'S MILL ROAD BRIDGE, HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ
STRIMPLE'S MILL ROAD BRIDGE, HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ

The Strimple's Mill Road Bridge over Lockatong Creek is a historic Pratt thru truss bridge located in Delaware Township of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1897 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 4, 2016, for its significance in engineering. It was listed as part of the Historic Bridges of Delaware Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey Multiple Property Submission (MPS). The 93 foot (28 m) long single-span pin-connected wrought iron bridge crosses the Lockatong Creek in the northwest corner of the township. According to the nomination form, the bridge features details such as a "crow’s foot" vertical hanger and “reversed” vertical hangers.

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Cuttalossa, Pennsylvania

Cuttalossa is an unincorporated hamlet in Solebury Township, just downriver from Lumberville, Pennsylvania. It sits at the confluence of a creek that runs through an unusually beautiful small valley and that feeds into the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, an old barge canal formerly used for transporting coal and cement from Northern Pennsylvania to Philadelphia. The canal is now the Delaware Canal State Park. Although it is tiny, it previously had several mills along the creek including one that milled railroad ties and it also had two quarries along the canal. Cuttalosa had been the site of a ferry across the Delaware River. Later one of the stone quarries operated a cable tram to convey rock across the river to the railroad on the New Jersey side of the river. The hamlet is also identified as Lumberton, although it was commonly called Cuttalossa after the creek that runs through it. In the past, the community had bourne the name of several of the operators of the ferry (Roses Ferry, Thorne's Ferry, Warner's Ferry, and Painter's Ferry). From 1819 until 1833 it was named Hard Times after a long standing tavern. For many years, the tavern has been a private residence and ironically, the principal mill has been a fine restaurant and bar. Perhaps the most famous resident of the hamlet was Col. Zebulon Pike of Pike's Peak fame who spent his childhood there. Cuttalossa was also home to the artists Daniel Garber and William F. Taylor. Taylor also founded the Cuttaloosa Inn and during the late 1940s and early 1950s was one of the prime movers and shakers in saving the old barge canal and having it restored and refilled.

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Lumberville, Pennsylvania
Lumberville, Pennsylvania

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