Susquehanna River Crossing - Havre de Grace, MD - Maryland Historical Markers on Waymarking.com

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."

Marker Type (optional): ---- County (required): Harford County Location (required): North Union Avenue and Saint John Street, Havre de Grace, Maryland, USA More info about the site/marker (optional): Next to 7/11 Website for more info (optional): [Web Link]

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