French King Bridge

French King Bridge aka: FKB
French King Bridge aka: FKB
Coordinates	42°35′52″N 72°29′48″W / 42.59778°N 72.49667°W
Carries	Route 2 pedestrian and vehicular traffic
Crosses	Connecticut River
Locale	Gill, Massachusetts, and Erving, Massachusetts
Maintained by	[1]
ID number	E-10-014 or G-04-009
Characteristics
Design	Spandrel-braced steel deck arch bridge
Total length	782 feet (238 m)
Width	47.8 feet (14.6 m)
Height	140 feet (43 m)
Longest span	460 feet (140 m)
History
Construction start	September 1931
Construction end	1932
Opened	September 10, 1932
Location

The French King Bridge is the three-span "cantilever arch" bridge^[2] that crosses the Connecticut River on the border between the towns of Erving and Gill, Massachusetts, United States. The bridge, part of Massachusetts Route 2, carries automobile, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic and is owned and managed by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).

^ Federal Writers' Project (1937). Massachusetts: A Guide to Its Places and People. American Guide Series. Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 453. ISBN 9781603540209.
^ Massachusetts Highway Department. "French King Bridge". Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts Executive Office of Transportation. Archived from the original on 2006-05-09. Retrieved 2009-09-02. It is of engineering interest as an unusual development of the uncommon three-span, "cantilever arch" bridge type, in that definite reactions were jacked into its steel work at the conclusion of construction, resulting in a bridge which is structurally continuous across four supports.