Orange County, NC - Bridge Records - 1787 - 1865Bridge records are petitions from the public requesting a bridge to be errected across a river stream creek typically where fords used to be, or at locations nearby these earlier crossings. Sometimes, although rare, they would develop a new road, but it would require a bridge across a stream. Never the less, this book, like the many volumes of road records, has an image of the petition along with a short transcript of the information. Some maps show