Shohola Suspension Bridge

This is an image set within the Bridgemeister collection.

Bridge:Shohola Suspension Bridge
Location:Barryville, New York and Shohola, Pennsylvania, USA - Delaware River
Coordinates and Maps:See related inventory record(s).
Image Set Contributor:Kevin Lacy
Date of Images:c. 1884-1887
Related Suspension Bridge Inventory:1855 Shohola (Barryville-Shohola, Shohola-Barryville) - Barryville, New York and Shohola, Pennsylvania, USA
Related Image Lists:All from Kevin Lacy
All in New York
All in Pennsylvania
All in USA
All Vehicular Suspension Bridges
Credit:Photos provided courtesy of Kevin Lacy. Please do not reuse without permission.

Kevin believes these photos show his great grandmother Mary McNeil, at Shohola, at some point between April 1884 and 1887.

Presumably this is the Shohola suspension bridge with multiple main cables seen. The Shohola bridge was significantly modified and strengthened after the early failure of the original 1855 bridge. This included adding a midstream tower resulting in some main cables passing over the new tower and same main cables bypassing the midstream tower.

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A crop of the previous photo. Twisted strand cables were used in suspension bridges in the mid-1850s.

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The two women at the Shohola Train Station presumably taken on the same day as the prior photograph.

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