Churchill Bridge - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Churchill Bridge - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Churchill Bridge is a historic bridge carrying Mountain Road over Bicknell Brook, in a rural corner of Buckfield, Maine. It is one of three documented stone lintel bridges in the state. It is a dry laid rubble stone structure which carries the road over the stream at a height of about . The total length of the bridge is about , and the clear span over the brook is . The span is formed by five massive ledge stones laid on rubble abutments about above the stream. Additional rubble is laid above to form the bed of the gravel roadway. The bridge crosses the stream at a slight angle, so its abutments are extended with wingwalls to the northwest and southeast. Read more on Wikipedia
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