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:
“Every incident connected with the breaking up of the rivers and ponds and the settling of the weather is particularly interesting to us who live in a climate of so great extremes. When the warmer days come, they who dwell near the river hear the ice crack at night with a startling whoop as loud as artillery, as if its icy fetters were rent from end to end, and within a few days see it rapidly going out. So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“What need the bridge much broader than the flood?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)