Turtle Creek No.4 (Peter Jonah)

 

Turtle Creek No.4 (Peter Jonah)

When a new dam and reservoir for the Greater Moncton water supply was built on Tower Road, the remaining Turtle Creek bridge was 'retired' and moved from its home in 2013, transported to a picturesque spot beside the pre-existing dam and reservoir.  They have done a nice job with it and it is clearly visible as you drive along Turtle Creek Road now.  The Peter Jonah bridge is notable for being one of the two remaining bridges in the province with the so called hip, or cottage, roof (the other one being Nelson Hollow).

Since I was just beginning to plan this blog project about the same time as this was going on, I took a couple of photographs of the bridge in its transition stage, though I did not get a chance to visit it before it was relocated.    I will add a couple of pictures from the Provincial Archives collection showing it at its original site first, then the consequent images from the first and second years after the move.

 Used with permission © Provincial Archives of NB

Used with permission © Provincial Archives of NB

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March 11th, 2016 - A journey into Albert County to get some more winter bridge photographs.  Alas, a couple of minutes after I got there, a horde of people arrived to visit the sugar camp owned by the City of Moncton, which is right beside the bridge, and picnic tables had been set up inside it for people to shelter in.  So I couldn't get any more pictures that day but, it is certainly nice to see the bridge being used by the public.