Bridge over Troubled Water Traditional Cache
Hawkshaw river rat: Due to construction the cache is now gone.
Bridge over Troubled Water
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1 of 3 geocaches ( GC2DCXE & GC2DCY8) placed by the Four Twisted Sisters (Jessie&Sophie's mom, Pen4, and Hawkshaw River Rat, TS#4). Site chosen to highlight history of area now long forgotten and covered by water. All 3 caches are just off the new highway so it can be a quick park and grab if you choose. Should be winter friendly. Update 2012-02-10. Check out this book, "The Town that Drowned" part fiction? part fact? by Riel Nason (nee Givan)who grew up in the area.
CONGRATS TO gr8pix for the FTF. This used to be the site of the Pokiok Falls until the completion of the Mactaquac Dam changed the entire Saint John River landscape. My grandmother worked at the Pokiok Falls Motel and Cabins (not certain of the name). My father still has one of these cabins on his farm. We used it as a playhouse growing up. I remember exploring the ruins of this area ( just in back of the Irving Restaurant and Gas Bar which ceased operations once the new highway was completed). As teenagers we used to jump off the catwalk underneath the Pokiok Bridge, the braver ones jumping off the bridge itself or from the cables higher up. There is some disagreement as to the proper name of this bridge, Pokiok or Hawkshaw Bridge. The first Hawkshaw Bridge made of concrete was blown up and replaced by this newer bridge to make way for the Mactaquac head pond. Families, including my parents, had to leave their homes along the river and find other places to live.
If you want to know more about the effects fo the Mactaquac Dam you might wish to visit this site. A small excerpt is attached.
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"The Saint John River was a living current of life passing through a wilderness landscape partly occupied by farms, towns and villages. We swam in its waters, poled canoes, worked the farmlands on the intervals and the forests along the banks, picked fiddleheads in the spring, visited, skated and played hockey over its ice in the winter. People came in from the country on Saturday nights, shopped in the towns and met friends. They were connected to one another - by the river.
Looking back 50 years later, it has become clear that to dam the river with a series of hydroelectric dams was to kill it. The invasion of the dams both flattened the river and tore to ribbons the delicate tissue of our convivial folk culture."
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