The New Hampton Pony Pratt Truss Bridge is a historic pony Pratt truss bridge on Shoddy Mill Road in New Hampton of Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. It crosses the Musconetcong River between Lebanon Township, Hunterdon County and Washington Township, Warren County. It was designed by Francis C. Lowthorp and built in 1868 by William Cowin of Lambertville, New Jersey. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 26, 1977 for its significance in engineering, industry and transportation. It is one of the few early examples of iron Pratt truss bridges remaining in the United States. With It was later documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 1991. It was added as a contributing property to the New Hampton Historic District on April 6, 1998. With
Description The New Hampton bridge is one of three remaining composite cast iron and wrought iron Pratt truss bridges built by Cowin in New Jersey. The others are the Glen Gardner Pony Pratt Truss Bridge (1870) in Glen Gardner and the Main Street Bridge (1870) in Clinton. The single-span bridge is long and wide. Its end posts are vertical, octagonal iron tubes topped square decorative caps.
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See also National Register of Historic Places listings in Hunterdon County, New Jersey National Register of Historic Places listings in Warren County, New Jersey List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New Jersey List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey
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