Take one more look at the historic Blue Hill Falls Rainbow Bridge in Blue Hill, Maine. It soon will be only a memory.

Technically, it’s a “Concrete-Tied Rainbow Through Arch Fixed Bridge” that started to deteriorate slowly the day that it was built in 1926. It’s now at the point where patching and shoring won’t help; it needs to be restored at great expense or replaced, and it looks like replacement with a modern girder bridge is the leading option.

The Blue Hill concrete rainbow is one of only two such bridges remaining in the State and it is the more beautiful one. The other rainbow is in Lewiston and was built in 1927.

(Blue Hill, Maine)

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