title: Sparkill Creek Drawbridge
text: # Sparkill Creek Drawbridge
  
  The Sparkill Creek Drawbridge is a historic Pratt Pony Truss drawbridge located at Piermont in Rockland County, New York. It was built in 1880 by the King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and is a single-leaf movable metal bridge. Chains can lift the bridge when an operator turns a crank, helped by counterweights. It spans Sparkill Creek, a tributary of the Hudson River.
  
  The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1994.
  
  A complete dismantling and restoration for $900,000 was completed in 2009 and the bridge now serves as solely a pedestrian bridge. The Rockland County Highway Department was responsible for this historic restoration.
  
  * King Iron Bridge Historic Marker
  * The Sparkill Creek Drawbridge in 1994
  