Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Colonel Poor” in chapter 5 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson:
...yette bridge.
I have sought in vain for the origin of this French name; and Crooked Mountain Pine Place has no historian.
It is known that in 1780 a brigade of New Hampshire troops, commanded by Colonel Poor , served under Lafayette at West Point and in New Jersey; and possibly this bridge may have been first built soon after this time and by some of Lafayette's old soldiers.
The name was given at the...
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