A traveler could get from Talbot to Dorchester County only by boat until 1935, when the first bridge across that part of the Choptank River was opened, bearing the name of late Governor Emerson C. Harrington. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was present to dedicate the two-mile-long engineering and technological achievement, the longest bridge in Maryland until 1952. When the four-lane Frederick C. Malkus Bridge replaced the Harrington in 1987, outdoors writer Bill Burton advocated to save some of the old bridge as a fishing pier, and the state park attached to it was renamed for him in 2011.
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Will the fishing peer reopen?