Wednesday, July 21, 2021

Trenton Makes Bridge, Trenton (Mercer County)


The Lower Trenton Toll Supported Bridge is a two-lane Pennsylvania through truss bridge over the Delaware River between Trenton, New Jersey and Morrisville, Pennsylvania. It is known as the Trenton Makes Bridge because of large lettering of its motto on the south side reading "TRENTON MAKES THE WORLD TAKES", installed in 1935. The city's iconic slogan first came out of a contest by the local chamber of commerce in 1910 to capture the essence of the once-thriving manufacturing city. “The slogan was meant to reflect Trenton's early history as an East Coast industrial center.

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