Old County Road Bridge

Walk to the Bridge. A bridge has spanned the river here since at least 1790 (the current one was built in 1966). In the nineteenth century there were two large stores, one on each side of the bridge. On the east side was George A. Gifford’s general store (1889), later called Shorrock’s. On the west side was Peckham & Howland’s clothing store, dating from 1821.

Old County Road is a busy cross town road. Once called Rhode Island Way, it connected New Bedford and Cape Cod to Howland’s Ferry in Tiverton, and on to Newport.