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    Falls Bridge Over the Dennys River Rte, 86 Between Edmunds and Dennysville, Maine.

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    Falls Bridge Over the Dennys River Rte, 86 Between Edmunds and Dennysville, Maine.

    At plantation meetings, 1801-1806, one hundred dollars was raised annually for roads (man's labor, one dollar per day; and ox labor fifty cents). fifty dollars was also raised for bridges. At the annual meeting in 1807, it was voted that a new bridge be built across Dennys River Fall. Theodore Lincoln agreed to build it for thirty days' work. This bridge was raised and rebuilt in 1879 at the cost of $455.21. A modern cement bridge has been in place to carry the Route 86 continuation of King Street since the twentieth century.

    Contemporary Photographs of the Dennys River AreaPhotos for Map

    The Falls Bridge over the Dennys River, c. 1885; Spectators on the rebuilt wooden bridge watch the Dennys River flowing beneath having made the turn past the Milwaukee Road in the distance. Photograph by John P. Sheahan of Edmunds, Maine.
    Falls Bridge Over the Dennys River Rte, 86 Between Edmunds and Dennysville, Maine. Looking across the Falls Bridge from Edmunds to Dennysville with the Mariner Wilder House in the distance.