The Lombock Bridge

Present Version

Original Lombock River Bridge

Circa 1900

 

There's always been a bridge over the Lombock. The

Lombock river is what cut the natural channel and inlet that is

Appleton. The bridge allows Route 9 to pass through Appleton.

Without a bridge some where along the Lombock route 9

would bypass the inlet and there would be no Appleton.

 

Back in the nineteenth century, the bridge was a

turntable affair that allowed boats to navigate up the

Lombock at high tide to private boat docks and a couple

of boat building yards. In the twentieth century the moveable

bridge simply became too much trouble and was replaced

by an immovable bridge with a steel deck.

 

The pictures are of the Blynman Canal bridge in Gloucester Mass.