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Bollman Truss Bridge

 

     photography: Rachel H. Sangree

 

 

 

 

   Structural Form:

  Bollman Truss Bridge; cast and wrought iron
  Engineer/Architect:

  Wendel Bollman
  Year Built:

  1869 (fabricated)

  1887 (erected on site)
  Location:

  Pedestrian bridge spanning Little

  Patuxent River near Savage Mill in 

  Savage, MD.  From Route 1 turn right

  onto Gorman Road [Standalone Map]
  Historical Details:

  This is the last remaining Bollman Truss

  Bridge in the United States.  [more]
  References:

  Historic American Engineering Record,

  Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Bollman

  Truss Bridge.  HAER No. MD-1.

  Retrieved March 15, 2005 from: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@FIELD(DOCID+@BAND(@lit(MD0583)))

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Historical Details: Once used in large numbers for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, this is the last remaining Bollman Truss Bridge in the United States. The bridge is unique in that it uses wrought iron diagonal tension members and cast iron posts (compression members)