The Strongest Bridge on the Mississippi River — Ferguson Falls Bridge

Photo from The Canadian Mississippi River Paperback – Jan. 1 1988

by Hilda Geddes (Author)

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada11 May 1898, Wed  •  Page 4

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The Weekly British Whig
Kingston, Ontario, Canada25 Apr 1901, Thu  •  Page 10

There have been several bridges in Ferguson Falls. No one really knows when the first one was built but a map from the area in 1869 shows one. A second bridge was built in the 1880s which had hemlock sleepers 45 feet long with a 15 inch face. They were scored and hewed for $7.50 each.

The next bridge was built in 1919 and the present one in 1968. This is the ONLY bridge on the Mississippi River that withstood the results of the Crotch Lake disaster of 1857. All the other bridges were wiped out. Thanks to the toughness of the Ferguson Falls bridge the people of the village got the warning in time to pile boulders on the bridge and thus save it. Read-Did You Know About the Crotch Lake Disaster?

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada15 Jan 1913, Wed  •  Page

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The Weekly British Whig
Kingston, Ontario, Canada19 Feb 1917, Mon  •  Page 5

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The Lanark Era
Lanark, Ontario, Canada04 Dec 1918, Wed  •  Page 8

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The Kingston Whig-Standard
Kingston, Ontario, Canada11 Apr 1918, Thu  •  Page 13

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The Kingston Whig-Standard
Kingston, Ontario, Canada13 Jun 1968, Thu  •  Page 33

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