Carpenters Bridge
Area
CountryUnited States
StateDelaware
CountyKent

Carpenters Bridge in Kent County, Delaware, United States is an area associated with the name Carpenters Bridge. It contains a minor bridge with that name that crosses the Murderkill River, a road by the same name and the immediate area has a pending residential area called Carpenter Bridge Crossing.

Bridge

Carpenters Bridge is a bridge by that name over the Murderkill River in Kent County, Delaware, 6 miles northwest of Milford, Delaware[1][2]

The bridge was in existence as early as 1890, when it was mentioned in The New York Times as the site of a murder.[3] It was rebuilt or improved in 1899,[4] and replaced with prestressed concrete and mixed box beam and girders construction in 1962.[5]

The bridge spans land that once was considered by local residents to be of historic importance, though neither the State of Delaware[5] nor developers such as Carpenter Bridge Properties, LLC, through the construction company Lessard Builders, now deem it as a historic area.[6]

Road

Road 35, is a state-maintained connector road and is locally designated as Carpenter Bridge Road. This road enables significant commercial and public access between Harrington and Frederica, Delaware.[7] The road has hundreds of houses along its length that spans two zip code areas. The zip code divider is the bridge itself by the same name.[8]

Area

The Carpenter Bridge Crossing Home Owners Association is a pending 193 unit subdivision. The 2006 State of Delaware approved planned residential community is located a little east of the bridge. Construction has been delayed due to the economy and construction has not yet started as of 2012.[9] Carpenters Bridge Properties, LLC is under the construction company Lessard Builders, who are the developers.[6] [10] Google Maps show the planned streets and lots, but the satellite view clearly shows construction has not yet started.[11]

The area is also home to a number of residential subdivisions, natural attractions such as the Burton-Derrickson Tract of the Murderkill River Nature Preserve and Killens Pond State Park, and at least one active bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) nest.[12] The area was proposed as the site of a renewable solar energy farm at Carpenters Bridge in 2004[13] which was still under consideration in 2010.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ "U.S. Board on Geographic Names | U.S. Geological Survey". www.usgs.gov. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Carpenters Bridge, Delaware
  3. ^ "Two Negroes Hanged For Murder", The New York Times, February 14, 1891, p. 1, https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1891/02/14/103295183.pdf, accessed 4 Aug 2012 -- "The killing [of a Negro man] was done at Carpenter's Bridge, where a public road crosses a branch of Murderkill Creek, about three miles to the eastward of Felton, Kent County."
  4. ^ Dept, Delaware State Auditor's (1901). Report.
  5. ^ a b CARPENTER BRIDGE over MURDERKILL RIVER, Frederica, Kent County, Delaware, http://uglybridges.com/1077384, accessed 3 Aug 2012.
  6. ^ a b "DNREC Alpha". DNREC Alpha. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  7. ^ "Street map of Carpenter Bridge Rd in Kent County, Delaware, United States". cartographic.info. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  8. ^ CARPENTER BRIDGE, FELTON, Delaware, ZIP Code 19943, http://www.izipcodelookup.com/DE/FELTON/CARPENTER_BRIDGE/19943.htm, and CARPENTER BRIDGE, HARRINGTON, Delaware, ZIP Code 19952-2927, http://de.postcodebase.com/zip_code/19952-2927, accessed 3 Aug 2012.
  9. ^ Carpenters Bridge Crossing by Kent County, Delaware planning and zoning commission. Archived March 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ Delaware State planning commission. This 2009 document on pages 8 & 9 shows the area of the pending Carpenter Bridge in the lower left side of the images.
  11. ^ "Google Maps". Google Maps. Retrieved 2022-08-05.
  12. ^ a b Kent County Department of Planning Services, Division of Planning, Staff Recommendation Report, September 2, 2010, Plan CS-10-04, Renewable Solar Energy Farm at Carpenters Bridge, http://www.co.kent.de.us/Departments/Planning/Zoning/documents/CS-10-04STAFFREPORT.pdf Archived 2014-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 4 Aug 2012.
  13. ^ Renewable Solar Energy Farm at Carpenters Bridge, Tax Map SM-00-140.00-01-76-000, http://www.co.kent.de.us/Departments/Planning/Zoning/documents/CS-10-04titlepage.pdf Archived 2014-10-19 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 4 Aug 2012.

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