Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
The Baring bridge may well have been the first international bridge in Maine. It was certainly the first bridge over the St. Croix River and connected the mills in Baring with those in Upper Mills, Canada.
Histories differ but the first bridge between these two communities, a rude affair, was constructed about 1804.
Over the next 150 years both communities prospered and became a single community, sharing churches, fraternal and social organizations. Marriages across the national border were common.
In 1948, when the U.S. Government closed the bridge, both communities were devastated. The closing was especially difficult for Upper Mills, which lost its only direct connection with a major highway.
In the background of the photo are the Chase Mills in Baring.
About This Item
- Title: Bridge, Baring, ca. 1930
- Creation Date: circa 1930
- Subject Date: circa 1930
- Location: Baring, Washington County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.75 cm x 17.75 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.104087
- Collection: Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Co.
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Postcards--Maine
- Photographs--Maine
- Mills--Maine--Baring
- Bridges--Maine--Baring
- Saint Croix River (Me. and N.B.)
- Rivers--Maine
- Rivers--New Brunswick
- Bridges--New Brunswick--Upper mills
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Penobscot Marine MuseumPO Box 498, 5 Church Street, Searsport, ME 04974
(207) 548-2529
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