Choate Bridge

    South Main Street crosses the Ipswich River over the Choate Bridge.  It was the first stone arched bridge in America.  At the time it was constructed, it was considered a radical design and not expected by many to work.  It has done its work for the past 250 years without losing a necessary rock.

	The Great Bridge by T. F. Waters
	Moving the Whipple House by Harold Bowen
	Choate Bridge by Harold Bowen
	Bridges - Felt
	Old Time New England -- A 1920's article  about the bridge
	Choate Bridge -- the Poem

Pictures

     1880                                        1980

              1927                            A View from on top                            

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