{"id":634,"date":"2010-10-15T22:57:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T22:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/piqueoftheweek.wordpress.com\/?p=634"},"modified":"2010-10-15T22:57:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T22:57:14","slug":"howlands-lane-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kplma.org\/pique\/2010\/10\/15\/howlands-lane-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Howland’s Lane Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two years ago, we noted<\/a> that the wooden planks in the Howland\u2019s Lane\u00a0bridge over the railroad tracks needed to be replaced, an \u00a0issue had been under discussion for a decade. \u00a0The bridge, built in the 1870s and\u00a0renovated during the 1930s, is now closed for repairs. \u00a0Rocky Nook’s primary water main, carried over the tracks underneath the bridge, will\u00a0also be upgraded. See here<\/a> and here<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n

Here are few early images of the bridge and the surrounding area.<\/p>\n

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How peaceful is this setting in the fields. One can hardly imagine the\u00a0many trains that now go to steadily stream to and from Plymouth each day.<\/p>\n

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The Standish monument already stood across the Bay, but other familiar elements were missing. \u00a0Howland’s Lane was not yet unpaved. No water line crossed the bridge. No one lived in Rocky Nook. Gray\u2019s Beach Park was still a marshy, rocky shore. \u00a0Shade trees stood few and far between. \u00a0It’s easy to imagine old Joshua Delano walking along the tracks, travelling from his\u00a0warehouse at the wharf now named for him \u00a0to his home on Main Street for his mid-day meal.<\/p>\n

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Two years ago, we noted that the wooden planks in the Howland\u2019s Lane\u00a0bridge over the railroad tracks needed to be replaced, an \u00a0issue had been under discussion for a decade. \u00a0The bridge, built in the 1870s and\u00a0renovated during the 1930s, is now closed for repairs. \u00a0Rocky Nook’s primary water main, carried over the tracks underneath … <\/p>\n

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