The bridge with old dock in the foreground.

This bridge was the center of a big controversy awhile back. When Route 1 was built alongside old Route 13 a new bridge needed to be built to handle the increased traffic, this being the span you see behind Saint Georges bridge. And when this new bridge was completed in 1995 the Army Corps of Engineers closed Saint Georges in anticipation of demolition. This did not go down well with local residents, and it especially didn't go down well with residents of Saint Georges. It would have meant having to go far out of their way and paying an extra toll just to visit the other side of the town, which is divided in half by the canal. In response the Corps of Engineers instead refurbished the bridge, repairing the deteriorating deck and removing lead paint.

Saint Georges was opened in 1942 to replace an earlier span that was destroyed when a ship collided with it. This crash unfortunately killed the bridge tender and an electrician who were both in the tenders office at the time. Another interesting fact is that they planned on adding lights to the bridge, but didn't want to during WW2 for fear of making it vulnerable to enemy attacks. Despite the ending of the war, however, lights were never added, but driving over it you can see the stands where they planned on adding them.

The dock you see is a heavily damaged fishing pier