Le Petit Pont - The Swinging Bridge

The Brunswick-Topsham Footbridge in 1895 - click to enlarge
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  Built to accommodate workers for the Cabot Mill in Brunswick that came to work from Topsham.  Topsham, a neighboring town, had some of the tenements owned by Cabot.  Most of the workers were French-Canadian and walked to work because wages weren't very high.
  Similar bridges are in Skowhegan which crosses to Kennebec to the section of Skowhegan that used to be the Town of Bloomfield.  There is the "Two-cent Bridge" between Waterville and Winslow.  I'm sure I have listed them all.  The Two-cent name of that bridge came from the toll charged for using that bridge.  My wife an I have walked across these bridges plus the one in Bangor over the Kenduskeag Stream, it's a pleasant walk on any of them.

The fall of the river seen from Le Petit Pont in 1895 - click to enlarge
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The 1936 flood covers the footbridge. - click to enlarge
Photo: Pejepscot Historical Society via www.mainememory.net