{"id":2544,"date":"2012-01-03T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T06:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2012-12-03T20:43:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:43:59","slug":"the-lyman-viaduct-a-technological-marval-a-source-for-classroom-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2012\/01\/03\/the-lyman-viaduct-a-technological-marval-a-source-for-classroom-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lyman Viaduct, a technological marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lyman Viaduct under construction, July 4, 1871<\/p><\/div>\n

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It’s hard to gauge just how\u00a0high the Lyman Viaduct is until you click on the photograph to get a larger view and look closely at the bottom.\u00a0 See the man and the horse (or\u00a0maybe it’s a mule, it’s hard to tell)?\u00a0\u00a0Then compare\u00a0them to the enormity of the trestle, then under construction.\u00a0 Amazing, isn’t it?<\/div>\n
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At 1100 feet long and 137 feet high, the Lyman Viaduct iron railroad trestle was built 1872-1873 to span the valley of Dickinson Creek near Colchester, Connecticut. Named after David Lyman, the man who built the New Haven, Middletown & Willimantic section of the Air Line Railroad, the trestle was a major link in a railroad line that was\u00a0billed as the fastest route between Boston and New York City.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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In 1912, as trains became heavier and the railroad became concerned about the stability of the trestle,\u00a0the Lyman Viaduct was filled in with sand and gravel.\u00a0It is now part of the Air Line State Park Trail, on\u00a0the Rails-to-Trails network.\u00a0 It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in August 1986.<\/div>\n
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The Lyman Viaduct is a technological marvel, showing the great lengths Americans went to to take advantage of the most powerful mode of transportation of the time.\u00a0 By the early 1900s almost every town in Connecticut had a railroad line easily accessible, enabling travel among the towns and cities as well as across the nation.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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This primary source conforms to the Connecticut Social Studies Curriculum Framework for Grade 8 students, particularly Strand 1.5 \u2014 weigh the impact of America’s Industrial Revolution, industrialization and urbanization on the environment.<\/p>\n

Laura Smith, Curator for Business, Railroad and Labor Collections<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 It’s hard to gauge just how\u00a0high the Lyman Viaduct is until you click on the photograph to get a larger view and look closely at the bottom.\u00a0 See the man and the horse (or\u00a0maybe it’s a mule, it’s hard … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,58,81,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3255,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions\/3255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}