Upper Bridge Belfast Me.

Upper Bridge Belfast Me.

"Upper Bridge Belfast Me." View looking from the east side toward upper High Street. 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.