CHAPTER V TRANSPORTATION

THE ROADS AND BRIDGES Old Tryon Road (Green Road)

The first road through the area was what we now know as the Green Road. It ran from Strathgartney to Crosby Mill, then on to Tryon. This road was recorded as early as 1821 and may well have been there for a decade or more at that time (1). It is unlikely to have existed prior to 1800 (2). The bridge over the West/Eliot River was a wooden structure and was noted as repaired in 1827 and 1868 (3,4). It was replaced with a 40 foot steel span in the summer of 1907 (5). This span was carried downstream to near the school by the spring runoff in 1962 (6). The bridge was not replaced and the section of road from the bridge site to the present Trans Canada Highway was abandoned and has now returned to forest.

m old wooden bridge near Crosby‘51 In: new steel Bridge just completed mils. Boc-hsw, known es Crosby’s below Crosby's Mills. Bonehswn-flectr Bridge hes been removcd end 3 iirsi credit upon the Public Works deport clues steel bridge hes been put in its ment and Inspector McKinnon under piece. The bridge which hse e 40 it. whose osrefnleupervisicn the structure spa is built on stone sbntrnents. The wee erected. There is perhaps no bridge .bfi'on the east side of the bridge, one of "1 “10 DTOV‘DOO “M‘OM ‘0 such severe the Matt on the Island, has been lower struin from ice and freshete end it wet ed considerably by means of u I...” of the utmost impoflsnoe that the m, which dredtes 3 cert lands in 7 (foupdstion should he first close in every “flu." The ciey removed h” been pu-ticuler, although sfldifficuit mutter placed on the approaches on both sides. everything wee cleered “"7 to n" The “on w” under the supervision of weird rock and e timber ionndstion ieid John McKinnernDeSibleJosd inspector up to high water leve'e. “"7““ stone ’l'bepeople or B mum are loud in their "b“‘mm- “99“ '“h 5"“ 9"“

mites oi the Commissioner of Public uron which “1. steel '9” "fl"

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rested in the purchsse o! the improved rand plough end ecreper. slid their emcienc vvssdemonet Patriot articles 1907 Allgust 1 Pg 8 tone to {curing up the 3:321:13: and JUIY 29 pg 8 end of the bridge. thus furnishing ms terlsi {or grsdicg up the spprosohes. T the generei opinion freely expressed is thst spurt" from being u “thing oi - besuty." the Bonshsw steel bridge mu he doing service tor generstions to come.

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