The Cleveland Bridge

Named for U.S. President Grover Cleveland of N.J., this bridge replaced a wooden bridge from the 1840s that served the extensive timber industry in the Ramapo Mountains. Constructed by the Berlin Iron Bridge Co. of East Berlin, Conn., a major iron bridge builder of the Northeast, it is one of two Ramapo River bridges that survived the record flood of 1903. Repaired in 1923 and historically restored by the County in 1983, it is the oldest of its type by this builder in New Jersey. Its lenticular truss design is also called Bowstring or Pumpkinseed because of its profile, and it is the County’s only functioning wood-decked traffic bridge.

New Jersey · United States