The Hallowell-Chelsea crib bridge was built in 1860 as a toll bridge to allow tourists easy access to the mineral spring at Togus, Maine. The bridge only lasted ten years. A spring freshet of the Kennebec River in 1869 heavily damaged the bridge and the flood of February 20, 1870 toppled it. The photograph shows the wooden bridge span atop an ice flow, being carried down the river from its original site. Locals claimed several ice houses down river were partly constructed with beams recovered from the bridge.