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The Mystery of the Lost High Bridge Watch
On January 17, 1883, the Troy Daily Times published a lost-and-found advertisement for a small gold English watch engraved with an image of High Bridge spanning the Croton River in New York. The owner valued it as a family heirloom rather than for its monetary worth.
High Bridge was a wooden covered structure that crossed the Croton River, opening in Jun…