FIRST -- Railroad Ferry in the U.S. - Havre de Grace, MD
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bluesnote
N 39° 33.122 W 076° 05.511
18S E 406192 N 4378608
One of a few Maryland State Markers in Havre de Grace.
Waymark Code: WMXE8M
Location: Maryland, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2018
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The plaque says, "Beginning in 1838,the cars of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad were carried across the Susquehanna River by the first railroad ferry in the U.S. A rail bridge replaced the ferry in 1866. The surviving granite piers carried the bridge until the 1906 opening of the new Pennsylvania Railroad bridge upstream, then carried a one-way vehicular toll bridge and later a two-way double decker until 1940, when the U.S. Route 40 bridge opened on a new alignment."
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