
Following Jersey Shore's S. Main Street leads to this lenticular truss bridge that crosses Pine Creek. The lenticular truss gets its name from the lenslike shape of its upper and lower chords. It was first used in the United States in 1883 on Pittsburgh's Smithfield Street Bridge, and became popular over the next two decades. Nationwide over one thousand lenticular truss bridges were built, many of them by the Berlin Iron Company, headquartered in East Berlin, Connecticut. This steel through bridge has pin-connected die-forged eyebars and scored concrete abutments. Its 287-foot length is considerably longer than a similar lenticular truss bridge approximately eighteen miles upstream at Waterville.