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:
“The river sweats
Oil and tar
The barges drift
With the turning tide”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“What need the bridge much broader than the flood?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)