Photo: Tourism Tasmania and Nick Osborne
Built by convict labor in the first half of the 1820s
Australia's oldest bridge was built over Tasmania's Coal River from 1823 to 1825 and was used for the moment of military police and convicts between Hobart and Port Arthur.
It is said to have been the site where a desperate convict committed suicide and where, in another story, a cruel overseer was set upon by the convict workers and thrown off the bridge.
Note St John's Catholic Church, Australia's oldest Catholic church, in the background.
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