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Dauphin-Marysville Bridge Pier

An undated photograph showing one of the remaining piers of the Dauphin-Marysville Bridge over the Susquehanna River. The bridge was removed about 1902 after it had fallen into such a state of disrepair that it was no longer useable as a railroad bridge. After 1875, when the Pennsylvania Railroad took over the operation of the Northern Central Railroad, east-west rail traffic primarily went over the Rockville-Marysville bridge which was a short distance to the south.

The bridge piers were not completely removed and today they can be seen by north-south travelers on both sides of the river. On one of those piers, in 1986, someone erected a replica of the Statue of Liberty, and after it was destroyed by a wind storm in 1992, local citizens raised $25,000 to build a more substantial replica which can still be seen in the river today.

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