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have left Maine with only eight of the 120 historic covered bridges it saw at its peak. Now, many modern covered bridges are spread across our state’s landscape, some more eccentric than others.
As one of Maine’s oldest and few remaining covered bridges, Babb’s Bridge has seen ... the Ford F-750 was loaded with crushed gravel. The Maine State Police told the Portland Press Herald ...
The deck repair of a covered bridge between the Cumberland County towns of Gorham and Windham is expected to take several months. After Maine Department ... lane bridge is a state-owned structure.
(The Center Square) – Maine’s roadways, bridges and dams received mediocre grades in a new report, which suggests the state has made some progress on infrastructure upgrades following a ...
(Gorham Police Department via AP) State workers pull a dump truck out of the Presumpscot River after it fell through the covered Babb’s Bridge in Gorham, Maine, on Friday, Aug. 23, 2024.
Once upon a time, Maine could claim that more than 120 covered bridges dotted its landscape ... vandals burned the bridge down in 1973. The state rebuilt an exact replica using historically ...
GORHAM, Maine (AP) — The driver of a dump truck learned the hard way that it’s best not to tempt fate on a covered bridge originally built before the Civil War. The loaded vehicle crashed into ...