My dad Joseph worked at Gallagher’s Mill and my Uncle Michael worked there too
We all moved down from quebec in the year of nineteen hundred and two
Our family moved into a old farm house two miles outside the village
My two big brothers got hired on a crew building the new twin bridges.
A temporary bridge was built upstream and wagons brought in stone blocks
And the masons mortared up the abutment walls so our bridges could sit on top
The towns people got so excited when the walls were almost complete
My brothers john and louis toiled till dusk mixing up tubs of concrete.
The days were getting shorter and the sunshine wasn’t so warm
When the canal boats started arriving with the new bridge beams on board
They started on the big bridge first with the help of two large cranes
The final parts were pined together in the wind and a cold driving rain
They were short some parts for the smaller bridge and everything had to wait
Until a wagon arrived with the pins and parts packed up in two large crates
The sun shone thru on the roadwork crew the carpenters worked quite fast
There was a huge celebration in Forestport “the Twin Bridges were finished at last”
People in wagons, automobiles and trucks would stop right in their tracks
To experience the falls and the beautiful Twin Bridges
Gateway to the Adirondacks…
– Gilbert Marcotte
