Built in 1895, it is one of only two surviving pin-connected Parker truss bridges in the state.

[1] The Town Bridge is located in a rural-residential setting of southwestern Canton, north of the village of Collinsville and about 0.1 miles (0.16 km) west of Connecticut Route 179 on Town Bridge Road.

It has a metal deck covered in asphalt, and carries a single lane of traffic.

It is the only surviving Berlin bridge in the state that is not of lenticular truss design, which then predominated in the company's production, and is one of less than two dozen Berlin bridges left in the state (out of more than 100 originally built).

The bridge was built as part of a town program to improve all of its crossings of the swift-flowing and flood-prone Farmington River.