Accident on the Van Cortlandt Bridge, 1911

Accident on the Van Cortlandt Bridge, 1911

Accident on the Van Cortlandt Bridge, 1911

During the summer of 1911, a heavy truck's rear wheels broke through the wooden planks of the Van Cortlandt Bridge, which crossed the Croton River along the Albany Post Road. The accident occurred on the Croton side of the bridge, with Van Cortlandt Manor visible through the trees in the background of the photograph.

The truck's occupants were identified as David Miller and Aimee Marie Dyckman, a local woman he would marry six years later. Dyckman, wh

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