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The original Sarah Mildred Long Bridge was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project. It was a "lift bridge that carries the US 1 Bypass over the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Kittery, Maine. The bridge a double deck truss bridge, with the U.S. 1 Bypass road deck above and a railroad bed below ... Completed in 1940, the bridge the second to carry motor vehicle traffic between Maine and New Hampshire at Portsmouth, and replaced a river crossing dating from 1822. The bridge was the direct result of the work of the Maine-New...