BRIDGES AT THE FOOT OF THE RAPIDS

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About the author

Features...

  • Large 8˝” x 11” format

  • 247 pages on acid-free heavy hi-gloss paper

  • Perfect binding

  • Color photographs

  • Fully indexed

  • ISBN 1-59196-333-8

 

Learn about...

  • The 1838 Toll Bridge Act

  • The Toll Bridge Company

  • Owners of the toll bridge

  • Bridge tokens

  • Bridge types and designs

  • Destruction of the bridges

  • River ford locations

  • Horse ferries

  • Interurban and rail bridges

  • The huge 1849 wooden bridge

  • Sale of the toll bridge in 1877

  • The 1881 bridge “fire”

  • Bridge location controversies

Bridges AT THE FOOT OF THE RAPIDS 

is the first fully-researched, fully-documented, illustrated history of the fords, ferries

and bridges spanning the Maumee River between Maumee and Perrysburg, Ohio. 

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            Gary L. Franks

            29479 Belmont Lake Road

            Perrysburg, OH 43551


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