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    Lower Bridge Between Edmunds and Dennysville

    Photograph
    The view from the Edmunds side with the lower bridge foreground and the Dennysville School House and the Congregational Meeting House in background.

    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.) In 1800 fifty dollars was also raised for bridges. At the annual meeting of 1807, it was voted that a new bridge be built across Dennys River Fall. At the same meeting, in discussing plans for bridge below Crown Brook, Pembroke, reference was made to the cost of "that now across the Dennys river," Although there was no indication whether that meant a bridge near the mills or one near the church and school, it appears that it was a recently built Lower Bridge. The stone abutments that served to anchor the Lower Bridge over the Dennys River are still visible. This one on the Edmunds side of the may have been rebuilt in 1879 during improvements made to the bridge at that time.

    Dennys River Historic PhotographsPhotos for Map

    View of Lower Bridge Between Edmunds and Dennysville, c. 1910; The Congregational Meetinghouse and schoolhouse in Dennysville are seen above the Lower Bridge on Meetinghouse Hill
    Lower Bridge; Another view of the lower bridge looking down river with the Benjamin Lincoln house on the left. Lower Bridge across the Dennys River.; Looking across the Lower Bridge in Dennysville viewed from the belfry of the Congregational Church building. The Aaron Hobart house is on the Edmunds shore, with T.W. Allan's wharves and warehouse around the corner. The Lower Bridge viewed from the Edmunds side with the Lincoln House in the background.; The wooden cribbing protected the rubble stone piers from scouring by the ice that rose and fell with the tide twice daily. Photograph by Dr. John P. Sheahan of Edmunds. Stone Abutment of the former Lower Bridge, Edmunds, Maine. Stone Abutment for the Lower Bridge over the Dennys River, Edmunds, Maine; The remains of the stone abutments, seen here at high tide in 2023, mark one end of the Lower Bridge that once connected the two towns of Dennysville and Edmunds.