The bridge is 653 feet (199 m) long, and can carry a traffic load of 8 short tons (16,000 lb) from County Route 620 Spur (Water Street) in Belvidere to the former Pennsylvania Route 709 on the Riverton, Pennsylvania side of the river.

The board of freeholders for Warren County, New Jersey supported the replacement of the ferry with a bridge for safety of passengers.

Original reports indicate that a ferry, which opened in approximately and was operated by a physician known as "Dr. Belvidere", ran along the alignment of the Riverton–Belvidere Bridge.

[1] That year, the Belvidere Delaware Bridge Company was established by the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The bridge company was provided designs for it by Solon Chapin, a contractor from Easton, Pennsylvania.

[1] In 1903, a violent storm, dubbed the Pumpkin Flood of 1903, struck both communities and the bridge in between, causing the loss of many lives.

On October 17, the bridge's toll collector closed the gate and prohibited passengers from crossing.

The bridge corporation set a completion date, August 17, 1904, which was the day that the Farmer's Picnic was held in Belvidere.

On June 3, 1904, the bridge construction began on a barge in the river, with promises to be complete by the set date of August 17.

[1] A high point of the events that day was done by a man named Murphy Jones, who as a stunt, jumped a 65-foot (20 m) plunge into the Delaware River from the bridge.

The festive stunt got Jones a total of $15 (1904 USD, equal to $508.67 today) and the event became an annual one.

[3] The structure would face its most recent strength test in 1955, after the massive flooding from Hurricane Diane wreaked havoc in the area.

The structure received minor damage in the flood, and the traffic was only halted for a day or two afterward.