Caption: Date: 1966
Location: Mulghat, Dhankuta
Description: Major bridge across the Tamor River. The story goes that several Scottish Engineers were brought in blindfolded in the 1930's by the very cautious ruling Ranas and designed and built this bridge. In the 1950s one of the guy wires broke and the then rulers complained to the engineering company who gladly replaced the broken wire saying that if that is all that went wrong with their bridge over that many years they would use the incident to advertise their products. During the smallpox scare of 1966 anyone who crossed the bridge had to be vaccinated and Dhankuta District was free of the disease that year. Keywords: Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, Peter Von Mertens, bridge, community, footpath
