Portland-Columbia Footbridge Traditional Cache
OReviewer: Hello,
As there's been no response to my earlier note, I am forced to archive this listing.
If you wish to repair/replace the cache sometime in the near future, just contact me email, including the GC Code, and assuming it meets the guidelines, we'll be happy to unarchive it.
Thanks,
-OReviewer
Portland-Columbia Footbridge
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When we first started cachin there was a cache nearby called PA or NJ? by Trailhound which was our 4th cache. When we saw that it had been archieved we just had to place one here. Hopefully the muggles will leave this one alone. Remember your camera; a great photo shot.
The Portland-Columbia Pedestrian Bridge (or as its formally known, The Portland-Columbia Toll Supported Pedestrian Bridge) is a footbridge that crosses the Delaware River, at Portland, in Upper Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania, connecting to Columbia, in Knowlton Township, New Jersey. The bridge is owned and operated by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.
A vehicular bridge had been located at the site of the present bridge since 1869. The original structure was a four-span timber bridge with wooden arches which was covered by a wooden shed with a slate roof.
As of December 1, 1953, the bridge on the site was closed to vehicular traffic, which was shifted to the new Portland-Columbia Toll Bridge, built one-quarter mile downstream of the old bridge.
In August 1955, during the remnants of Hurricane Diane, three of the four spans of the timber bridge washed away. Hurricane Diane was the wettest hurricane to ever hit the North American continent and caused record flooding throughout the northeastern US, but particularly the Delaware River watershed.
Starting in 1957, the bridge was reconstructed as a four-span steel girder bridge system with concrete piers.
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