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Bailey Island Bridge, Maine

Bailey Island Bridge, Maine
Bailey Island Bridge – Harpswell, Maine Bailey Island Bridge, Maine - The Bailey Island Bridge is located along Route 24 in Harpswell, Maine. It connects Bailey Island and Orr’s Island. Construction of the bridge started in 1927 and was completed in 1928. The design is referred to as a “cribstone” design, and it may be the only granite cribstone bridge left in the world today ...

Prescott Park – Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Prescott Park – Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Prescott Park, New Hampshire - Prescott Park is a ten acre parcel of land along the Portsmouth waterfront. We can thank Josie and Mary Prescott, public school teachers and life long residents of Portsmouth, for the creation of this park. It was their desire to see an area of the Portsmouth waterfront cleaned up and turned into a public park. In Josie F. Prescott's last will and testament a private trust fund was set up to purchase tracts of land ...