I sometimes wish we had never found the prototype to the "Swamp Angel" at the marsh edge in Cold Spring, NY where they once had the over 500' long "Bridge Shop", on concrete stanchions until the fire in 1913 in Cold Spring, it a worldwide and local producer of bridges (one still in New Jersey, and still in business today). Under one of the pyramidal "pads" or footings that once held up the steel covered assembly-line shed, with a rail line in it and others alongside it, with gantry cranes outside and various steam driven lifters of ironwork for assembly and riveting inside had been, were the remains of the prototype "Parrott" platform on-top of the piled "grillage" of small diameter trees, perhaps floating at one time, with what appeared to be in old "stereo-pair" photographs, a two story observation tower, supplied by a different load-bearing rail, one that brought weapons of mass destruction that brought asunder, where later, created spans brought people together.(In 1896/97 J. B. & J. M. Cornell took over the iron foundry at Cold Spring, N. Y. on the Hudson River. The foundry was known as the West Point Foundry Works. These facilities are discussed in the magazine, The Successful American, Vol. III, No. 4, April 1901, p. 202, which also illustrates the extensive works at this location."
State of South Carolina's listing for the "Swamp Angel".
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