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Item 12351
Title: WPA work on Swinging Bridge, Brunswick, 1936
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: 1936
Location: Brunswick
Media: Photograph, print
Item 80137
Title: The bridge over the "Gut" in South Bristol, 1996
Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society
Date: 1996
Location: South Bristol
Media: color photograph
Item 79592
Title: The first swing bridge in South Bristol, ca. 1910
Contributed by: South Bristol Historical Society
Date: circa 1910
Location: South Bristol
Media: color-tinted photograph
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The Swinging Bridge: Walking Across the Androscoggin
Built in 1892 to entice workers at the Cabot Manufacturing Corporation in Brunswick to move to newly built housing in Topsham, the Androscoggin Pedestrian "Swinging" Bridge or Le Petit Pont quickly became important to many people traveling between the two communities.