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Underwater Bridge Find (Connecticut River)

Started by Dougtone, July 16, 2012, 10:07:30 PM

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Dougtone

News story and related photos (both historical and recent) regarding a suspension bridge built in 1889 over the Connecticut River to connect Brattleboro, Vermont and Chesterfield, New Hampshire.  This bridge was lost to a flood in 1936 and was near where the bridge connecting VT 9 and NH 9 can be located today.  It appears that some large sections of the bridge remained intact after all of these years.

http://www.reformer.com/ci_21082623/from-murky-depths-damaged-bridge
http://www.angelfire.com/nh/newenglandscuba/suspensionbridge.html


KEVIN_224

As many times as I've crossed both the old bridge and the current Seabees Memorial Bridge in this area, I never knew there was another bridge before 1937! Wow!

bugo

That is pretty damn cool, although very creepy.

Pete from Boston

I know, I know, super old thread.  I remembered this coming up in a search once and had something good to add.

Came across this video of a WGBY (Springfield, Mass., PBS station) documentary that has a lot about the bridges along the Connecticut River:

The Great Flood of 1936

Many of the Connecticut River bridges in Massachusetts date to the 1930s and now I know why.  There's quite a narrative of bridge after bridge failing spectacularly, at least one wooden one in the Montague area breaking free and acting as a floating battering ram against downstream bridges.

Must have been a hell of a time getting across while this damage was dealt with.




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