Item 23674 - Crowd, Kittery-Portsmouth Bridge opening, 1923
- Item 23674 - Crowd, Kittery-Portsmouth Bridge opening, 1923
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Image Info In 1920 construction began on the Memorial Bridge, which spanned the Piscataqua river from Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Kittery, Maine. Construction was finished in 1923 and the bridge was dedicated on August 17, 1923. The Memorial Bridge was dedicated as a World War One monument. The Memorial Bridge was replaced in 2011.
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Maine, New Hampshire and the federal government contributed to the construction of the span over the Piscataqua River joining Kittery, Maine, and Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
