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Nevius Street Bridge
Somerville, New Jersey
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Nevius Street Bridge is a 300-foot-long, two span, double-intersection Pratt through-truss bridge and the oldest documented metal-truss bridge in the county, built in 1886 by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton, Ohio. The county hired local masons William W. Smith and Richard Farrier to construct the stone abutments and central pier, and its construction marked the first time the Board of Chosen Freeholders hired a professional civil engineer, F.A. Dunham, to supervise the building of a bridge. It was listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places on September 11, 1992, and the National Register of Historic Places on November 12, 1992. Somerset County rehabilitated it and converted it to a pedestrian bridge in 2006.
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