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Covered Bridges
Sewall's Bridge
York, Maine
Sewall's Bridge, built to carry the Organig Road over the York
River in York in 1761, is a very old wood-piling bridge. The pilings
were of different lengths, the length of each determined by probing
the river bottom with a long pole tipped with a pointed piece of
iron. The piles were driven into the river bottom by standing them
upright, then dropping heavy oak logs on them. The original bridge
was so well built that it remained in use until 1934, when it was
replaced with a wood pile bridge of a design very similar to that
of the original. That replacement bridge is in regular use today.
This bridge was dedicated as a historic civil engineering landmark
on July 24, 1986.
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