Today In History

Small Connecticut River Bridge Washed Away

Event date: Jan 13, 1843

The small Bridge across a branch of the Connecticut River, over which the travel passed which enters our Village from the East, was carried off by the freshet on Tuesday of this week. The ice damming up against the large bridge, forced the water and ice through this eastern branch in such quantities and with such force, as to undermine and tear away the western abutment of this small bridge.

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