Upper Bridge Belfast Me.

Upper Bridge Belfast Me.

"Upper Bridge Belfast Me." View looking southeast toward Belfast: The Upper Bridge was located off Upper High Street (on the right) and connected Belfast with the east side. It was a wooden drawbridge. In 1876, the draw tender, Hollis Smart was paid $140.00. The bridge was almost entirely rebuilt in 1895 by Bancroft Huzzy Conant & Sanford Hills Mathews as contractors at a cost of $972.50. It was destroyed by the freshet of 1896 (river flooding from heavy rains or snow melt) and was, again, rebuilt. The upper bridge was closed in 1959.