LB2009.10.117406

LB2009.10.117406

"Railroad Crossing" View of the Upper Bridge looking toward the east side from High Street at a Belfast & Moosehead Lake Railroad crossing . The Upper Bridge was located off Upper High Street 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.