Summer Street Bridge (Boston)

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Summer Street Bridge
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Aerial view of Summer Street Bridge
Coordinates 42°21′04″N71°03′07″W / 42.351°N 71.052°W / 42.351; -71.052
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Summer Street Bridge (Boston)

The Summer Street Bridge is a retractile bridge built in 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts, over the Fort Point Channel. It still stands, but the draw was welded shut and the motors removed in 1970.

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When documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1984, the Summer Street Bridge was one of only four retractile drawbridges left in the US, two of which were on Summer Street in Boston. [1] [2] The other bridge on Summer Street, crossing Reserved Channel, was replaced in 2003. [3]

This was the site of the Summer Street Bridge disaster on the night of November 7, 1916, in which 46 passengers were killed. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Stott, Peter (1984). "Summer Street Retractile Bridge" (PDF). Historic American Engineering Record . Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. p. 1. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Summer Street Bridge". historicbridges.org. Retrieved 2019-03-26.
  3. ↑ "Summer Street over Reserved Channel Bridge". bridgehunter.com. Retrieved October 25, 2020.
  4. ↑ Moskowitz, Eric. "The tragedy that Boston forgot". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved 2019-03-26.

42°21′04″N71°03′07″W / 42.351°N 71.052°W / 42.351; -71.052


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