Son of Lyles Robert Robinson and Catherine Worthington Goldsborough
brother of Richard Alexander Robinson
Portals, the magazine published by the Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society of Pennsylvania, listed the Canton Covered Bridge over Harris Creek in its February 1965 issue. The Society reported the bridge to be built in 1837, 117' in length, crossing Harris Creek on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad.
Our first indication that the covered bridge existed was found in an article in the Baltimore Sun on July 29, 1844:
On Saturday morning as the 9 o'clock train of cars were going to Philadelphia, and when near the Canton Bridge, a horse ran away from a cart load of brick, and all were precipitated down a high bank. This occurrence attracted the attention of the passengers in the cars, and one of them, Mr. Goldsborough Robinson, of Louisville, Ky., put his head out of the car to see the extent of the damage. Just as he did this the cars entered the bridge, and his head was caught between the car and one of the pillars, giving him a very severe blow on the left temple. A rebounding blow gave him a wound on the back of the head, and when the cars were stopped, he was perfectly insensible.
Son of Lyles Robert Robinson and Catherine Worthington Goldsborough
brother of Richard Alexander Robinson
Portals, the magazine published by the Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society of Pennsylvania, listed the Canton Covered Bridge over Harris Creek in its February 1965 issue. The Society reported the bridge to be built in 1837, 117' in length, crossing Harris Creek on the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad.
Our first indication that the covered bridge existed was found in an article in the Baltimore Sun on July 29, 1844:
On Saturday morning as the 9 o'clock train of cars were going to Philadelphia, and when near the Canton Bridge, a horse ran away from a cart load of brick, and all were precipitated down a high bank. This occurrence attracted the attention of the passengers in the cars, and one of them, Mr. Goldsborough Robinson, of Louisville, Ky., put his head out of the car to see the extent of the damage. Just as he did this the cars entered the bridge, and his head was caught between the car and one of the pillars, giving him a very severe blow on the left temple. A rebounding blow gave him a wound on the back of the head, and when the cars were stopped, he was perfectly insensible.
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