The Covered Bridge

The Durgin Bridge in Sandwich, New Hampshire was first built in 1820. The sign tells us that the first three bridges here were destroyed by "freshets." Turns out a freshet is a "sudden rise in the level of a stream, or a flood, caused by heavy rains or the rapid melting of snow and ice." The bridge was named for James Holmes Durgin, who ran a nearby grist mill and drove stage from Sandwich to Farmington and was a link in the underground slave railroad from Sandwich to Conway. Remember ever seeing it, Linda?