Maine Memory Network

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of North New Portland

"… Society Cement Bridge: The Cement Bridge is scheduled to be replaced with a new single span steel girder bridge to be completed in 2010."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - Bridges of West New Portland

"Gould Hill Bridge: The Gould Hill Bridge, also known as on of the Twin Bridges, was also constructed by the Maine State Highway Commission."

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"The Wire Bridge is a physical landmark, but the real appeal of this town is the people, past and present, that define the spirit of this rural Maine…"

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - East New Portland Village

"… blacksmiths, insurance, a canning factory, tin, steel and iron-worker, boot and shoe maker(2),carpenter, physician and surgeon, fruit grower…"

Lubec, Maine - Building the Roosevelt Bridge to Campobello - Page 1 of 3

"The bridge remains, a working ribbon of steel and concrete intimately tying two communities in two nations into a single working relationship."

Lubec, Maine - Parade, Pins and Pageantry, 1911

"… Or the least expensive, this stamped lithographed steel button with the safety pin on the rear, like those still manufactured a century later."

Guilford, Maine - EVENTS - Page 2 of 3

"Flood and Steel Bridge, Guilford, 1936Guilford Historical Society The biggest flood recorded in Guilford since 1936 was the 1987 flood."

Guilford, Maine - MANUFACTURING - Page 2 of 2

"The address is 9 Oak Street. Flood and Steel Bridge, Guilford, 1936Guilford Historical Society In 1979, Saulter joined the company as president."

Skowhegan Community History - The Skowhegan Island

"In 1970, the Margaret Chase Smith bridges were erected and are still the two bridges used on the island today."

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - Population Decline in Maine's Coastal Counties

"The use of concrete and steel in constructing buildings and bridges diminished the importance of granite, affecting employment in the state's granite…"

Western Maine Foothills Region - Rumford - Page 3 of 4

"… Island was flooded; the Morse bridge, the steel Rumford Falls Bridge, the Rangeley Lakes Railroad bridge, and the Ridlonville bridge were washed…"

Presque Isle: The Star City - Aroostook Valley Railroad

"Although the steel has been removed, the concrete piers are still visible today from Riverside Drive between State and Main Streets."

Guilford, Maine - The Next Fifty Years 1916-1966

"… In the early 1950’s the construction for a new steel and concrete bridge was underway after being interrupted once again by another flood."

Aroostook Historical and Art Museum

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Guilford, Maine - BUSINESSES - Page 3 of 3

"It was made out of steel tracks, timber ties, railroad spikes, and railroad ties. The railroad was used for both passenger and freight trains."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Agriculture

"… order any new parts due to the scarcity of steel and in order to have everything in readiness to raise “a maximum food crop.” This must have been a…"