Talk:Sunset Lake Floating Bridge
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The Floating Bridge in Vermont is an extremely interesting bridge. It is a fairly simple design but is hard to explain. It spans the width of Sunset Lake. This floating bridge uses plastic containers full of Styrofoam to keep it aloft in the water. Built in 1820 this bridge still lets people cross but if in a car and on the middle beware, this bridge occasionally sinks.
Let this be a warning to you if you want to take an 18 wheeler across it. According to stories the people of Brookfield liked crossing the lake in the winter while the ice provided a safe passage they decided to build a bridge that would allow them to cross in the summer months. At first they used logs lashed together but later when the logs needed changing every year they decided to make a more permanent bridge first in1884 by using tarred barrels that floated on the water. Then again in 1978 with plastic containers filled with Styrofoam. But in the summer watch out for the kids doing cannonballs of the bridge or join right in for all I care.
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Given the new bridge, could we have a new image? - Denimadept (talk) 00:26, 24 May 2015 (UTC)