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The Willimantic Footbridge is a pedestrian bridge in the Willimantic section of Windham, Connecticut. Built in 1906, it extends from Main Street southward, across Riverside Drive, railroad tracks, and the Willimantic River, connecting downtown Willimantic to the residential area south of the river. It is one of a small number of pedestrian ...
Willimantic Footbridge: 1906 1979-04-19 Willimantic ... Steel truss footbridge ... Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all ...
The Thread City Crossing ("Frog Bridge") is a road bridge over the Willimantic River, opened to traffic in September 2000, featuring eight-foot high, green-painted bronze frogs sitting on concrete thread spools to represent Willimantic's history in textiles as well as the local legend of the Windham Frog Fight of 1754. [42] [43] [44]
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [ 1 ] There are 85 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 3 National Historic Landmarks .
The Frog Bridge in December 2018. The bridge is a simple compression iron arch bridge that crosses the Willimantic River and a railroad line owned by the New England Central Railroad. It carries South St. that connects to Route 32 and Route 66. It has 8 concrete thread spools, 4 with green-colored copper frogs; the frogs' eyes are covered by ...
Main Street Historic District (Willimantic, Connecticut) Mansfield Hollow Lake; March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Manship Road-Barstow Road; March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Old Canterbury Road; March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Palmer Road; March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Plainfield Pike; March Route of Rochambeau's Army: Scotland Road
Willimantic Footbridge This page was last edited on 21 August 2022, at 09:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
A 90-foot (27 m) drop further west on the Willimantic provided an additional source of water power, which was exploited in the early 19th century for the production of textiles. By 1836 there were six textile mills lining the river, and the growth of Willimantic as an urban commercial hub and mill village was in full swing. Main Street, laid ...