The Delaware River and the New Bridge
They built a new bridge and here are a few photos that my grandfather, Irwin Briggs took. They used dynamite to blast through the mountain to get stone to build road 97, an important through road to many towns. The first two photos show some of that dynamite.
“Our good friend Mr. Deats, had much self taught knowledge in scientific things. He took our family near there after the dust was settled, and we found many very interesting fossils! There were fossils of narrow tree trunks as I can remember; other things too probably. Some of the slabs were 12″ or more long. We had quite a few of them. About an inch or 2 thick.” Mary (Briggs) Austin
The new bridge going up.
