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Gardiner - Randolph, Kennebec County

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Inventory Number: ME/19-06-10x
County: Kennebec County
Township: Gardiner - Randolph (formerly Pittston)
Town/Village:
Bridge Name: Gardiner - Randolph
Crosses: Kennebec River
Truss type: Howe
Spans: 4
Length:
Roadway Width:
Built: 1853
Builder:
When Lost: 1926
Cause: Replaced
Latitude: N44 13.81
Longitude: W069 46.14
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Gardiner - Randolph Bridge, Gardiner-Randolph, Kennebec County, ME Built 1853 Replaced 1926
Richard E. Roy Collection

Gardiner - Randolph Bridge, Gardiner-Randolph, Kennebec County, ME Built 1853 Replaced 1926
1896 Photo, Richard Sanders Allen Collection, NSPCB Archives

Gardiner - Randolph Bridge, Gardiner-Randolph, Kennebec County, ME Built 1853 Replaced 1926
Richard Sanders Allen Collection, NSPCB Archives

Gardiner - Randolph Bridge, Gardiner-Randolph (formerly Pittston), Kennebec County, ME Built 1853 Replaced 1926
September 25, 1925 Photo, Maine Department of Transportation Archives

Comments:
The bridge was wide enough for two lanes of traffic with sidewalks on each side. It had 4 covered spans, the westernmost (Gardiner end) was covered, then the pony Howe open truss swing span, and three more two lane Howe spans. Near the Randolph end was a stairway to the narrow-gauge Kennebec Central Railroad station. Tolls were charged until 1887. The 1896 flood took out the center spans which were replaced with steel trusses. Later, the draw span was also replaced. One covered span remained at each end until replaced in 1926. There is no bridge at this site now.

Sources:
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume LIX, No. 1, Winter 2001, page 4
Conwill, Joseph D.. Images of America - Maine's Covered Bridges, 2003, pages 50 & 51

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