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A wooden bridge was constructed across the Schuylkill River to connect our Borough of West Conshohocken with our neighbor, Conshohocken, in the 1800s.
In 1872, an iron bridge was erected over the Schuylkill River. The cost for walking across the Schuylkill Bridge was one cent; if you drove across with two horses, it would have cost you twelve and one-half cents each way.
In 1908, the Conshohocken Improvement Association was formed. It promoted the building of a new bridge over the Schuylkill to replace the old iron river bridge built in 1872 and the canal span and to eliminate the Reading Company's grade crossing in West Conshohocken.
Eleven years later, the Montgomery County Commissioners gave the contract for the bridge to Seeds and Derham in the fall of 1919. The concrete bridge which was started in 1919 was opened for traffic Armistice Day 1921 with great fanfare and parading. This bridge was later replaced in the 1980's with a new and improved concrete bridge heavily used today.
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