OCEAN CITY'S HERRING CREEK
BRIDGE CLOSED
Baltimore Sun Tuesday,
October 14, 1941
Traffic was stopped this
morning between Berlin and Ocean City on the highway, U.S. 213,
as State Roads Commission
closed the bridge over Herring Creek, west of Ocean City.
Williams Construction
Company of Middle River began setting off dynamite at the east and
west approaches to Herring
Creek Bridge ib an effort to settle the fill in preparation to
the
laying of foundations for
the new dual highway bridge over the tributary and two miles of
a four land highway to the
$1,000,000 Sinepuxent Bay Bridge nearing completion.
The present Herring Creek
bridge is to be removed and the new dual bridge built just a bit
north of the old site.
The Mayor and Council
will hold a protest October 20. Mayor Cropper feels the closing
deals a financial blow to
his city, even though the contract calls for completion of the
project
by June 15, 1942.
The suspension of traffic
over route 213 necessitates a detour by Berlin to Sinepuxent
which will affect tourist
trade in 1942 the mayor feels.
The district engineer, P.
A. Morrison of Salisbury, said the actual distance via the detour
will only be one and a
half mile further and that the project will be finished and all
roads
and bridges open in time
for the 1942 beach season.
Abstract February 22, 2018
by Harrison H. for facebooks “Lewes to Ocean City” page
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