Workers construct a platform under the Susquehanna River's Norman Wood Bridge in the summer of 2008. The platform aided painters working on the bridge, a dizzying height above the river bed. Background posts: How many Amish have crossed the bridge from Lancaster to York County? and Bridge painters stalled: 'Everybody's looking for the eagles ... nobody has seen any' and For years, folks have eyed amazing, destructive Susquehanna River ice jams.
Scott Mingus made a quick aside that said much during a speech to the York County Civil War Roundtable in March.
John B. Gordon's Confederates marched in late June 1863 to the bridge spanning the Susquehanna River between Wrightsville and Columbia.
That bridge was the only one standing between Harrisburg and the Maryland Line.
Just a few years earlier - in 1857 - wind and ice had knocked down a bridge at York Furnace in southeastern York County... .
