Parsonsfield Bridge was built by the towns of Porter and Parsonsfield as a joint project over the Ossipee River in 1859.
There was a dispute over the costs of building and maintaining the new bridge. A group of selectmen from each town met on the old, uncovered span. The meeting culminated when a selectman from Parsonsfield took a jackknife and tossed it at the midpoint of the span. He proceeded to say “the town of Parsonsfield shall build so far and no further!”
The152-foot structure is of Paddleford construction strengthened with laminated wooded arches. The bridge, located one-half mile south of Porter, was closed to traffic in 1960 when a new bridge was built upstream.
This can be a high muggle area and is a popular place for kids to “hang out”. Please careful both retrieving and handling this cache. It may be safer to retrieve it to your Geomobile to sign, the replace.
This cache has been made intentionally difficult due to the number of times caches have gone missing here, BUT is in plain sight.