Millanville-Skinners Falls Bridge
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The Skinners Falls–Milanville Bridge was a bridge spanning the Delaware River between Milanville, Damascus Township, Pennsylvania and the hamlet of Skinners Falls in Cochecton, New York from 1902 to 2025. The 466.5-foot (142.2 m) long Baltimore truss bridge carried traffic of Calkins Road (State Route 1002) in Milanville and Skinners Falls Road in Cochecton over a single wooden lane of traffic until its final closure in October 2019. The bridge was one of two bridges on the National Register of Historic Places along the river in Sullivan County (the other being Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct), and was a contributing member of the Milanville Historic District. Replacing a ferry run by descendants of the Skinner family, the Milanville Bridge Company came into existence in May 1901 to establish a new bridge between the two communities. After facing local opposition from competing bridges along the river, the bridge, built by the American Bridge Company of New York City, opened in November 1902. A flood in late March 1904 wiped out the New York span of the bridge, requiring reconstruction of the span. The New York–Pennsylvania Joint Interstate Bridge Commission bought the bridge in April 1923, eliminating the Milanville Bridge Company and tolls on the bridge. The bridge in its later years struggled to stay together as it aged. After several attempts to repair the bridge through closings and repairs, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) closed the bridge for good on October 16, 2019 after finding parts of the bridge deteriorating. Despite multiple attempts to consider restoration of the old bridge, a metal brace fell into the river in 2024, resulting in the necessity of removing the structure from the river. Initial hopes were to dismantle the bridge and restore it offsite, but on December 17, 2024 PennDOT announced that the bridge would be demolished entirely due to the main failure and the lack of expectation that it would survive the dismantling project. Demolition of the bridge began exactly five months later on April 17, 2025 and the bridge ceased to exist on April 21. The bridge was in service for nearly 117 years when it was closed in 2019. As of the bridge's removal, there is no longer any bridge at this location. The closest Delaware River crossings are now the Cochecton–Damascus Bridge to the north and the Narrowsburg–Darbytown Bridge to the south.
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When was Millanville-Skinners Falls Bridge listed on the National Register?
Millanville-Skinners Falls Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 14, 1988.
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Millanville-Skinners Falls Bridge is classified as a structure in the National Register of Historic Places.
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The period of significance for Millanville-Skinners Falls Bridge is recorded as the industrial era.
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