"Penny for Your Thoughts" LbNA #47699 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 31, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Edinburg |
| County: | Saratoga |
| State: | New York |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | AntsMarching  |
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| Found by: | Rollins Pond Campers |
| Last found: | Aug 29, 2015 |
| Status: | FFF |
| Last edited: | May 31, 2009 |
One shall begin in the little town of Edinburg, NY, and take North Shore Road (State Route 4) heading toward Hadley. You are going to want to look out for the Copeland Covered Bridge. (A few turns down the road that you travel).
You will need to have your own STAMP PAD since I didn't have one when placing. We listed "handicap accessible" as long as you have someone to reach the final resting place!
Arad Copeland (1805-1884) came with his family from Guilford, Vermont to the Sacandaga Valley in 1815, first settling in the Town of Day. In 1828 Arad and his brother Leonard moved to the Town of Edinburgh, purchasing Ely Beecher’s sawmill and carriage factory located along Beecher Creek.
Arad married Anna Elizabeth Trowbridge, daughter of Edinburgh resident Willard Trowbridge.The Trowbridges’ operated a brick kiln behind their home on what is now Sinclaire road. As a wedding gift Willard donated the bricks for a house and Arad built the home for his bride c.1832. The house still stands today across the road from the covered bridge.
This beautiful old bridge that Arad built to get his cows safely to pasture had remained in the Copeland family until the fall of 1997 when great, great grandson Robert Tyrrell and his wife Betty graciously deeded the bridge over to the Edinburg Historical Society.This will guarantee that the bridge will continue to receive the same love and care that it’s received for over 120 years.
A re-dedication celebration of the bridge was held on a beautiful June day in 2002 opening the site officially to the public. Thanks to a committee from the New York State Covered Bridge Society the bridge was placed on the State and National Registers of Historic Sites in 1998.
Once you’ve visited the covered bridge and viewed the falls above it you’ll always have a special place in your heart for this piece of Edinburgh’s history.
Check out the entire location, but you will find this letterbox "overlooking" the waterfall above the bridge. You may have to venture out on a limb, (or a shelf of rock). As you face the rapid rush of the falls, turn 180 degrees and under the rock behind you, covered in a crevice, you will find the LB. Happy hunting. "Penny for Your Thoughts" was named by MarchingAnts son... take a penny!
(www.edinburgny.com/copelandbridgehistory.html)
You will need to have your own STAMP PAD since I didn't have one when placing. We listed "handicap accessible" as long as you have someone to reach the final resting place!
Arad Copeland (1805-1884) came with his family from Guilford, Vermont to the Sacandaga Valley in 1815, first settling in the Town of Day. In 1828 Arad and his brother Leonard moved to the Town of Edinburgh, purchasing Ely Beecher’s sawmill and carriage factory located along Beecher Creek.
Arad married Anna Elizabeth Trowbridge, daughter of Edinburgh resident Willard Trowbridge.The Trowbridges’ operated a brick kiln behind their home on what is now Sinclaire road. As a wedding gift Willard donated the bricks for a house and Arad built the home for his bride c.1832. The house still stands today across the road from the covered bridge.
This beautiful old bridge that Arad built to get his cows safely to pasture had remained in the Copeland family until the fall of 1997 when great, great grandson Robert Tyrrell and his wife Betty graciously deeded the bridge over to the Edinburg Historical Society.This will guarantee that the bridge will continue to receive the same love and care that it’s received for over 120 years.
A re-dedication celebration of the bridge was held on a beautiful June day in 2002 opening the site officially to the public. Thanks to a committee from the New York State Covered Bridge Society the bridge was placed on the State and National Registers of Historic Sites in 1998.
Once you’ve visited the covered bridge and viewed the falls above it you’ll always have a special place in your heart for this piece of Edinburgh’s history.
Check out the entire location, but you will find this letterbox "overlooking" the waterfall above the bridge. You may have to venture out on a limb, (or a shelf of rock). As you face the rapid rush of the falls, turn 180 degrees and under the rock behind you, covered in a crevice, you will find the LB. Happy hunting. "Penny for Your Thoughts" was named by MarchingAnts son... take a penny!
(www.edinburgny.com/copelandbridgehistory.html)