Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct is the oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States; it runs 535 feet (175 m) from Minisink Ford, New York to Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania. It is also known as the Delaware Aqueduct, or Roebling Bridge. Begun in 1847 as one of four suspension aqueducts on the Delaware and Hudson Canal (D & H), it was designed by and built under the supervision of John A. Roebling, who would design the Brooklyn Bridge twenty...
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Roebling's Delaware Aqueduct is the oldest existing wire suspension bridge in the United States; it runs 535 feet (175 m) from Minisink Ford, New York to Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania. It is also known as the Delaware Aqueduct, or Roebling Bridge. Begun in 1847 as one of four suspension aqueducts on the Delaware and Hudson Canal (D & H), it was designed by and built under the supervision of John A. Roebling, who would design the Brooklyn Bridge twenty years later. Portions of the D & H Canal, including the Delaware Aqueduct, were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968. The Delaware Aqueduct is also designated a National Civil Engineering Landmark. The aqueduct was used as a vehicular bridge until 1979; it was restored by the National Park Service in 1985 and is now part of the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River.
The Delaware and Hudson Canal and Gravity Railroad was a system of transportation between coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania and markets on the Hudson...
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