{"id":3572,"date":"2019-10-05T21:55:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T21:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2019-10-05T21:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T21:55:36","slug":"the-last-days-of-the-old-brunswick-bridge-and-other-stories-of-our-ferries-and-bridges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/the-last-days-of-the-old-brunswick-bridge-and-other-stories-of-our-ferries-and-bridges\/","title":{"rendered":"The last days of the old Brunswick bridge — and other stories of our ferries and bridges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Above:\u00a0\u00a0Photograph from The Times-Herald, Feb. 10, 1953, courtesy of Brunswick History Commission.\u00a0 Automobiles are crossing the old bridge, as a construction crane is used to lower the superstructure for the new bridge, which replaced the old one in 1955.<\/em><\/p>\n

Our friends in the Brunswick History Commission<\/a> have posted many hundreds of old photographs and news articles online– which are of interest to those in the Lovettsville area as well.\u00a0 Among these are many news stories and pictures of the old Brunswick bridge and the construction of the new span which was completed in 1955.<\/p>\n

For example, here <\/a>are a number of stories about the history of ferries and early crossings across the Potomac between Berlin\/Brunswick, and The German Settlement\/Lovettsville.<\/p>\n

\"Old_bridge_to_be_replaced_in_1955_from_The_Times_Hearld_February_10,_1953.pdf\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Brunswick History Commission has many\u00a0pictures<\/a> of the old \"Old<\/a>\"Old<\/a>bridge that was built in the 1890s:<\/p>\n

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Post card of old bridge looking toward Brunswick<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Old<\/a>
Old bridge with horse and rider<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Above:\u00a0\u00a0Photograph from The Times-Herald, Feb. 10, 1953, courtesy of Brunswick History Commission.\u00a0 Automobiles are crossing the old bridge, as a construction crane is used to lower the superstructure for the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lovettsvillehistoricalsociety.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}