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Inventory Number: NY/32-39-05x County: Otsego County Township: Otego Town/Village: Otego Bridge Name: River Crosses: Susquehanna River Truss type: Spans: 2 Length: Roadway Width: Built: Builder: Robert Murray When Lost: May 1866 Cause: Windstorm Latitude: N42 23.503 Longitude: W075 10.069 See a map of the area Topographic map of the area Directions: At Otego.	River Bridge, Otego, Otsego County, NY Built 1866 Replaced 1901 Trish Kane/Richard Donovan Collection
Comments: Per the Oneonta Herald, May 16, 1866, "We also learn that the covered bridge at Otego, across the Susquehanna river, was blown down, and that part of the roof of the river bridge at Emmons' was blown off." It was rebuit as a covered bridge which was eventually replaced with an iron bridge.
Sources: Oneonta Herald, May 16, 1866. Wilson, Richard R.. New York State's Covered Bridges, 2004, page 75

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