Demise of 1839 Maumee-Perrysburg toll bridge

Though this winter’s ice gorge on the Maumee River was minor, such was not the case in many years past. Every winter that produces a significant ice floe, area residents look forward to the spring thaw that will break it loose. The river, placid in the summer and fall, can become a raging, destructive torrent of water in the early spring when the ice thaws and winter rains fall. The watershed…