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The World War I Memorial Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge that carries U.S. Route 1 across the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Badger's Island in Kittery, Maine. A large overhead plaque facing traffic on the bridge reads "Memorial to the Sailors and Soldiers of New Hampshire who gave their lives in the World War 1917-1919." The lift span can be fully opened to allow large commercial vessels to pass. During summer, the lift section remains partially elevated every half-hour between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. for about 15 minutes. This allows smaller commercial and recreational boat traffic. The bridge is currently the only one of the three Piscataqua River bridges with provisions for pedestrians and bicycles. This bridge replaced the original structure that was completed in 1923 and closed in 2011. The opening of the new bridge in August 2013 was reported in the local paper thus:- New Hampshire and Maine celebrated the opening of a new bridge Thursday that has become a steel symbol of their past cooperation and their commitment to future commerce. The $81.4 million Memorial Bridge between Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine, replaces one that was built in 1923 and closed in 2011. As she did 90 years ago at age 5, former Portsmouth mayor Eileen Foley did the ribbon-cutting honors, riding across the bridge in a golf cart with a bouquet of flowers on her lap. The crowd cheered as she cut the ribbon, then sang "God Bless America."

The first bridge over the Swift River on this site was constructed in 1857 and destroyed by a windstorm in 1858. It was replaced with this roofed structure in 1858 at a cost of $1,300 minus the amount previously paid for the original bridge. The bridge has wide shallow arches and sharply raked facades and the beams are in the form of Paddleford trusses. The U.S. Forest Service replaced the wooden floor timbers with steel in 1981-1982. It is 120ft long with a clear span of 100ft and has a weight restriction of 6 tons.

The lifting bascule section of Ferrymountgarret bridge no longer operates so you need to be careful of headroom at high tide when passing through this section of the tidal River Barrow above New Ross. This bridge was opened with a Scherzer mechanism lifting span on November 7, 1929 and completed at a cost of £22,500. It is understood that it was open to pedestrian traffic from May 1929.