Weather Blogging

It's been raining.

Quite a bit.

It's safe to say that fishing on the East Branch of the Perkiomen won't be "right" for a while.

A couple of miles downstream, here's the Perkiomen Bridge in Collegeville.

Brand new in 1799, the bridge cost $60,000. In the dark days before PennDOT, the state held a lottery to raise the necessary funds to build it. It's one of the oldest bridges in regular use in the state.

Favorite anecdote:

1867: Toll house erected on the Perkiomen Bridge. Local citizens throw the gate into the creek and burn the toll house.

Our national attitudes have really mellowed in one hundred and forty years.

Pennsylvania Posted by AlexC at April 15, 2007 7:46 PM