The Mystery of the Lost High Bridge Watch

The Mystery of the Lost High Bridge Watch

The Mystery of the Lost High Bridge Watch

On January 17, 1883, the Troy Daily Times published a lost-and-found advertisement for a small gold English watch engraved with an image of High Bridge spanning the Croton River in New York. The owner valued it as a family heirloom rather than for its monetary worth.

High Bridge was a wooden covered structure that crossed the Croton River, opening in June 1842 and collapsing into the river from neglect in October 1879—a span of just 37 years. The bridg

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