The Embarras River Bridge is located near the Jasper County, Illinois city of Newton, the county seat of Jasper County. The bridge has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since May 1998. It spans the Embarras River on Wade Township Road 164.
Famous quotes containing the words river and/or bridge:
“This ferry was as busy as a beaver dam, and all the world seemed anxious to get across the Merrimack River at this particular point, waiting to get set over,—children with their two cents done up in paper, jail-birds broke lose and constable with warrant, travelers from distant lands to distant lands, men and women to whom the Merrimack River was a bar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches
Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)