Photo of the Month

June, 2003

A VIEW FROM BERWICK ACROSS THE

SUSQUEHANNA RIVER TO NESCOPECK

The stone piers across the river supported a wooden covered bridge built in 1837 that charged a toll for those who used it. Not until a court order on February 5, 1900, did it become a free bridge after the bridge company received a payment of $25,349 for its property. The white building in the foreground to the left was the "old toll house." A major flood in March 1904 destroyed the bridge which was replaced with a steel structure in 1906.