5A: Upper Griswoldville


pic from:  lostbridges.org  website

5a  The "Upper Griswoldville Bridge" was at the beginning of Adamsville Road , just a few feet off Route 112. A steel arch bridge is there now. These first two images are the same, with different captions.



pic from:   2010 "Covered Bridge Topics" newsletter.

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pic from: Colrain Historical Society #2472
Is this the same bridge? . The note on the back of this one says "Replaced by a concrete and steel....in 1933"
*****  March 2 NOTE.. Todd Clark (bridge afficianado from Cincinati) says this can't be Upper Griswoldville Brige, as the construction type - "Town Truss" is not that known to have been used on Upper Griswoldville ("Burr Truss")  ..  This pic might be of the River Street (Colrain City) bridge ?
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Debby Wheeler collections
Postcard - no date on verso  - 

Debby Wheeler collections
Above:   a Muriel Ritchie painting of the Upper Griswoldville Bridge, perhaps done in the 1920s. 



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