Long Bridge

Canal bridges in the Chesapeake City area – circa 1907 – 1949: Long Bridge

This pretty girl is Marion Wells. She’s sitting on the town’s fire bell, an iron ring the firemen would strike with a hammer to alert citizen volunteers of a fire. This is looking south, close to where the lock was located. Notice long bridge in the distance. It spanned Back Creek from the Causeway at left (now the Corps of Engineers’ area) to City Dock, AKA Rees’ Wharf, and now Pell Gardens at the area where Capt. Hazel moors the Miss Clare tour boat). At far right, on pilings, you can see Ralph Rees’ grain warehouse. At low tide, some of its old pilings can still be seen opposite the Canal Creamery. Franklin Hall is also visible at top right.