French King Bridge aka: FKB | |
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| Coordinates | 42°35′52″N 72°29′48″W / 42.59778°N 72.49667°W |
| Carries |  Route 2 pedestrian and vehicular traffic |
| Crosses | Connecticut River |
| Locale | Gill, Massachusetts, and Erving, Massachusetts |
| Maintained by | [1] |
| ID number | E-10-014 or G-04-009 |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | Spandrel-braced steel deck arch bridge |
| Total length | 782 feet (238 m) |
| Width | 47.8 feet (14.6 m) |
| Height | 140 feet (43 m)[1] |
| Longest span | 460 feet (140 m) |
| History | |
| Construction start | September 1931 |
| Construction end | 1932 |
| Opened | September 10, 1932 |
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The French King Bridge is the three-span "cantilever arch" bridge[2] that crosses the Connecticut River on the border between the towns of Erving and Gill, Massachusetts, United States. The bridge, part of Massachusetts Route 2, carries automobile, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic and is owned and managed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (1937). Massachusetts: A Guide to Its Places and People. American Guide Series. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 453. ISBN 9781603540209.
- ^ Massachusetts Highway Department. "French King Bridge". Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation. Archived from the original on 2006-05-09. Retrieved 2009-09-02.
It is of engineering interest as an unusual development of the uncommon three-span, "cantilever arch" bridge type, in that definite reactions were jacked into its steel work at the conclusion of construction, resulting in a bridge which is structurally continuous across four supports.