Martin's Point Bridge

Route 1 joins I-295 a short distance to the south at the Veranda Street interchange.

[2] It is part of the 3,000-mile long East Coast Greenway connecting Maine and Florida.

[4] In 1807, Ammi Ruhamah Mitchell and others petitioned for a bridge to provide a crossing of the Presumpscot River at its mouth with Casco Bay.

Five years later, John Williams and almost two thousand other people petitioned that the bridge be rebuilt, as a toll-free crossing, at the expense of Cumberland County.

The process revealed the Presumpscot Falls for the first time in several hundred years.

This sculpture of a nesting osprey was part of the current bridge's construction in 2014. It is the work of New Hampshire sculptor Wendy Klemperer