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Canajoharie or Palatine, Montgomery County

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Inventory Number: NY/32-29-03x
County: Montgomery County
Township: Canajoharie - Palatine
Town/Village: Canajoharie - Palatine Bridge
Bridge Name: Canajoharie or Palatine
Crosses: Mohawk River
Truss type: Unknown truss with arch
Spans: 2
Length:
Roadway Width:
Built: c1826
Builder:
When Lost: 10 Jan 1901
Cause: Burned
Latitude: N42 54.577
Longitude: W074 34.259
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Directions: At Canajoharie.

Canajoharie, Montgomery County, NY Burned 1901
Trish Kane/Richard Donovan Collection

Canajoharie, Montgomery County, NY Burned 1901
David Stiles Collection

Comments:
This two-lane bridge was built by the Canajoharie & Palatine Bridge Company around 1826. When the Schenectady & Utica Railway was built, the north span was raised to clear the tracks. Later, two iron Whipple truss spans were added to the Canajoharie side to span an area that regularly flooded. The covered portion burned in 1901. Per the Buffalo Courier, January 12, 1901, "Fort Plain, Jan. 11---It is intimated that the old wooden covered bridge which spanned the Mohawk River at Canajoharie and Palatine Bridge, and which was burned yesterday [January 10, 1901], was destroyed by persons who had been anxious for its removal for years. The bridge was built in 1832 and for years there has been a strong feeling to replace it with a modern bridge."

Sources:
Allen, Richard Sanders. Old North Country Bridges, 1983, page 50
Buffalo Courier, January 12, 1901.
Wilson, Richard R.. New York State's Covered Bridges, 2004, page 72

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