Betsy Ross Bridge
The Betsy Ross Bridge is a continuous steel truss bridge spanning the Delaware River from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Pennsauken, New Jersey. It was built from 1969 to 1974, and opened in April 1976, during the American Bicentennial Year.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Bridge
- Description: bridge in New Jersey
- Also known as: “Delair Bridge”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pennsauken Transit Center and Frankford Arsenal.
Pennsauken Transit Center
Railway station
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Pennsauken Transit Center is a New Jersey Transit train station in Pennsauken Township, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. It serves as an intermodal transfer station between the River Line light rail and the Atlantic City Line commuter rail, as well as serving the Delair neighborhood for Pennsauken and the nearby industrial park. Pennsauken Transit Center is situated 2,600 feet southeast of Betsy Ross Bridge.
Frankford Arsenal
Historic site
The Frankford Arsenal is a former United States Army ammunition plant located adjacent to the Bridesburg neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, north of the original course of Frankford Creek. Frankford Arsenal is situated 1½ miles north of Betsy Ross Bridge.
First Presbyterian Church of Bridesburg
Church
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First Presbyterian Church of Bridesburg is situated 1¼ miles north of Betsy Ross Bridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bridesburg and Port Richmond.
Bridesburg
Neighborhood
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Bridesburg is the northernmost neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. A mostly working-class neighborhood, Bridgesburg is an historically German and Irish community, with a significant community of Polish immigrants who arrived mostly in the early- to mid-twentieth century.
Port Richmond
Neighborhood
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Port Richmond is a neighborhood in the River Wards section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is notable for its large Polish immigrant and Polish American community, and it has been known as the Little Poland of Philadelphia. Port Richmond is situated 2 miles west of Betsy Ross Bridge.
Pennsauken
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Pennsauken Township is a township in Camden County, in the Philadelphia Metropolitan Area in the U.S. state of New Jersey, and it is located outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which it borders directly on the Delaware River.
Betsy Ross Bridge
- Categories: truss bridge, toll bridge, and transportation
- Location: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Region, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.98479° or 39° 59′ 5″ northLongitude
-75.0659° or 75° 3′ 57″ westOpen location code
87F6XWMM+WJOpenStreetMap ID
way 575988418OpenStreetMap feature
man_made=bridgeGeoNames ID
4556554Wikidata ID
Q3396470
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to German—“Betsy Ross Bridge” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Betsy Ross Bridge”
- Finnish: “Betsy Ross Bridge”
- French: “Betsy Ross Bridge”
- French: “pont Betsy Ross”
- French: “Pont Betsy Ross”
- German: “Betsy Ross Bridge”
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