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Title: Volume 024-2 - April 1970 Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Collection Name: Nevada County Historical Society Bulletins # of Pages: 5 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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VISIT THE BRIDGEPORT COVERED BRIDGE : The bridge is easy to visit andmay be reached from Highway 20 turning north just west of Penn Valley around Lake Wildwood or from Highway 49 turning west south of North San Juan and passing through French Corral to the bridge. Your visit to the Bridgeport Covered Bridge will be a rewarding experience. You will be able to relive in the quiet solemnity of this bridge the sounds of oxen or horses or wagons rumbling across her planked deck for over a century. You can relax under her protective cover sheltering you where history cannot be ignored. This famous bridge has its own distinction in length and engineering and now more and more is being added to the lists of historical treasures worth visiting. Clinton H. Lee Nevada County Historical Society LOOKING DOWNSTREAM AT THE BRIDGE TODAY Acknowledgements: I wish to acknowledge help from many sources and many people who have added their personal knowledge and references to this story of the Bridgeport Bridge. All cannot be listed but some must be, as follows: Mrs. Verna Wood Dunchee and her husband Bertram; Herbert Nile; Leland 5S. Smith; Doris Foley; Robert Paine; Arlie Hansen; Lyle White, Donald Gillett; Schoharie County Historical Society; Nevada County Historical Society;Nevada City Library and extracts from Thompson and West and other publications. G. By. LER, Visit the NEVADA COINTY HISTORICAL SOCIETIES Mining Exhibit in Grass Valley and Museum in Nevada City. Open regularly during the tourist season and in the winter by appointment. Nevada County Historical Society Vol. 24 No. 2 APRIL 1970 SONNET TO A COVERED BRIDGE BY C. H. LEE NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Silent and majestic stands the covered bridge at Bridgeport, Built by David Wood a century ago on foundations like a fort. The South Yuba crossing this covered bridge does span, A Historic crossing on the Henness Pass route of man. The Bridgeport Covered Bridge all hazards has had to fight, May it never give up and fade forever from our sight; All who care to save this famous bridge can now a little give And help this historic covered bridge more days to live. Prolong her days and beauty rare give her another history page, The Bridgeport Bridge, historic treasure from a golden age. The bridge may fall, as time runs out or just misunderstood; Hoping we will never say, ‘‘There is where the bridge once stood,’’ THE BRIDGEPORT COVERED BRIDGE NEVADA COUNTY'S CENTURY OLD HISTORICAL TREASURE BY CLINTON H. LEE There is something exciting about a covered bridge and the ‘‘bridger’’ or covered bridge ‘‘buff’? has a right to become excited about these structures as they fade away one by one. Nevada County has one that is unique in many ways and perhaps you will agree as we go into the history of the Bridgeport Bridge across the South Yuba River in western Nevada County. We will present the need for and the service it performed as a trans-sierra freight route from San Francisco to Virginia City in the Washoe Territory,