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Waldo
County, Maine
(WGN
19-14-a) (WGCB ME-14-a): (1962)
(Private) A single-span non authentic Stringer truss, 18' 5" over
a pond outlet. Located: In Belfast City Minor Civil Division
west of Belfast, Maine, at 126 Belmont Avenue (SR 3). Directions:
From Belfast, Maine, at the jct. of US 1 and SR 3, go west 1.2 miles on
SR 3 (Belmont Avenue) to No. 126 on the left. The bridge is at the
far end of the pond on the left. On private property so request permission
to visit. The land on which the footbridge stands was once the Cedarcroft
Nurseries, thereby, giving the bridge one of its alternate names.
The property has since been sold and is no longer a nursery. The
bridge is the second oldest non authentic covered footbridge in Maine.
The structure is supported by two utility pole stringers, set on piled
rocks. Transverse planks are fastened to the stringer constituting
a sub floor. Weathered vertical boarding with batten covers the sides
and the portals, with four opposing, small, hexagonal glass-paned windows.
Five wood posts, equally spaced along each side support the roof, which
is covered with gray horizontal lapped boards. Also known as the
Cedarcroft
Nurseries Covered Footbridge and the Belfast Covered Footbridge.
When visited on May 15, 2006, there was no one home so we could not get
permission to access the property, thus the long range zoom shots.
(May 2006) |
