File:Myer Kaplon photo of a covered bridge.jpg
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For now, we're putting this in the "Brunswick's Beginnings" album. It's a Myer Kaplon photo of a covered bridge pastel of some kind above the shoe and Hallmark Card displays. This was probably taken in the 1960s before the legendery Kaplan’s Department store closed in 1967.
We believe this was a depiction of the old covered bridge across the Potomac from Virginia into Berlin that Lee's Confederate troops destroyed in 1861.
Do you remember it at Kaplon's?
(From the Myer Kaplon photo collection at the Brunswick Community Library; Frederick County Public Libraries)
James Robert Castle: That is exactly how the “1850’s” bridge was described. There is a Harpers Weekly drawing of the bridge from the article printed when the bridge was burned in 1861. The bridge was burned in June of 1861, prior to Antietam, by the confederates. They doused the bridge with coal oil and loaded it with gun powder and ignited it. The townsfolk reported that it looked like daytime in the night.
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