Market Street Bridge | |
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| Coordinates | 40°15′24″N 76°53′5″W / 40.25667°N 76.88472°W |
| Carries | Market Street and  BicyclePA Route J |
| Crosses | Susquehanna River |
| Locale | Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Maintained by | PennDOT |
| NBI Number | 223012003000000[permanent dead link] |
| Characteristics | |
| Design | U.S. National Register of Historic Places |
| Total length | 1,415 ft (431 m)[1] |
| Width | 59 ft (18 m) |
| Load limit | 49 metric tons (54 short tons) |
| History | |
| Constructed by | Modjeski & Masters, Paul Philippe Cret |
| Built | 1928 |
| MPS | Highway Bridges Owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation TR |
| NRHP reference No. | 88000759 |
| Added to NRHP | June 22, 1988 |
| Location | |
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The Market Street Bridge is a stone arch bridge that spans the Susquehanna River between Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Wormleysburg, Pennsylvania. The current structure is the third bridge built at its current location and is the second oldest remaining bridge in Harrisburg.[2] The bridge carries BicyclePA Route J across the river.
The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 22, 1988 and was documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1997.
- ^ Federal Highway Administration (2008). "Place Name: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania NBI Structure Number: 223012003000000; Facility Carried: SR 3012". Nationalbridges.com (Alexander Svirsky). Retrieved December 4, 2008.[permanent dead link] Note: this is a formatted scrape of the 2006 official website, which can be found here for Pennsylvania: "PA06.txt". Federal Highway Administration. 2006. Retrieved June 7, 2008.
- ^ "National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania" (Searchable database). CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System. Note: This includes Patricia Remy (November 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Market Street Bridge" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-11-16.