If it wasn’t enough to already boast a world record, the town of Hartland, N.B. just got a tad more attention with the help of Google.
The Hartland Covered Bridge, the longest such span on the planet, turns 111 Wednesday and Google.ca helped celebrate by featuring it as its Google Doodle.
The Doodles replace the standard Google logo on the landing page of the world’s most popular Internet search engine on days marking noteworthy events or occasions.
The 391-metre bridge over the St. John River opened to horse and wagon travellers July 4, 1901. Because the government wasn’t going to build it for them, a group of private citizens formed the Harltand Bridge Company to construct the bridge and funded it with tolls. It was privately built and owned until 1906, when the New Brunswick government took control of it.
The Doodle links off to a Hartland Covered Bridge search page, where web surfers can find out more about the bridge’s history and tourism information, including this tourism video.
Google has created more than 1,000 Doodles, including animated and interactive images to mark the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, the 79th anniversary of the first drive-in movie and the 78th birthday of Dr. Robert Moog, who revolutionized the music industry with the creation of the electronic analog Moog Synthesizer.
The Doodle works well with the province’s most recent tourism campaign: In a bid to lure more visitors this summer, billboards have gone up in other province’s, depicting the province’s natural attractions, with the caption “Hi, My name is New Brunswick. Google Me.”
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The Hartland Covered Bridge was designated a National Historic Site in 1980 and a Provincial Historic Site in 1999.
The bridge has survived fires and a partial collapse due to ice in the St. John River
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