Uncle Tims Bridge and Cannon Hill
Uncle Tim’s Bridge links East Commercial Street to the town's conservation area of Cannon Hill.The wooden footbridge was reconstructed in 2008 with funding from the Community Preservation Act.“The wooden footbridge was constructed in 1844. For years, residents of South Wellfleet used it as a shortcut into town. David Wright of the Wellfleet Historical Society informed me that the structure was simply called “the bridge over Duck Creek” back then. No one called it Uncle Tim’s Bridge until the 1940s. And, yes. Uncle Tim did exist. He was one Timothy Daniels, a man who lived at the bottom of Whit’s Lane and supplied the ships that docked nearby. Mr. Daniels also took people out on fishing excursions and, quite the self-promoter, referred to himself as “Uncle Tim.” He died in 1893, but his name lives on.”