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Sawmill Creek Mouth or Sawmill Creek #1, Albert County

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Inventory Number: NB/55-01-20
County: Albert County
Township: Hopewell
Town/Village: Hopewell Hill
Bridge Name: Sawmill Creek Mouth or Sawmill Creek #1
Crosses: Sawmill Creek
Truss type: Howe & Queen
Spans: 1
Length: 105', 32m
Roadway Width: 18'
Built: 1907
Builder: Albert E. Smye
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N45 45.879
Longitude: W064 41.524
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Directions: 3.2 miles (5.2 km) east-northeast of jct NB915 on south side of NB114 in roadside park. East of Riverside-Albert.

Sawmill Creek Mouth or Sawmill Creek #1 Bridge, Hopewell, Albert County, NB Built 1905
Warren White Photo, June 10, 2011

Sawmill Creek Mouth or Sawmill Creek #1 Bridge, Hopewell, Albert County, NB Built 1905
Bill Caswell Photo (2003)

Sawmill Creek Mouth or Sawmill Creek #1 Bridge, Hopewell, Albert County, NB Built 1905
Bill Caswell Photo, July 6, 2012

Sawmill Creek Mouth or Sawmill Creek #1 Bridge, Hopewell, Albert County, NB Built 1905
Bill & Jenn Caswell Photo, February 17, 2019

NSPCB Tour at the Sawmill Creek Mouth or Sawmill Creek #1 Bridge, Hopewell, Albert County, NB Built 1905
Bill Caswell Photo, July 27, 2019

Comments:
Bids for this bridge were due on September 2, 1907. Albert E. Smye was awarded the contract with a bid of $2,974.00. The road was relocated in the 1960s.

Sources:
Annual Report of the Chief Commissioner of Public Works, 1907
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume LXXI, No. 2, Spring 2013, page 8
New Brunswick Dept. of Transportation. List of New Brunswick Covered Bridges, c1950
New Brunswick Travel Bureau. Covered Bridges of New Brunswick (Canada), undated (mid 1950s), page 9
Undated list of New Brunswick Covered Bridges, undated (before 1952)
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 164

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