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The bridge in upper photo was taken at Birdfordvill. The lower photo was taken at Allenville.The Allenville bridge was built first it's twin sister at birdfordvill was shortley after.

Why destroy such a beautiful piece of workmanship?

What a shame!

There was an error in the last post: Angela Freeman was abducted in 1993; Bond and Hatcher in May 1995.

This bridge was the site of two abductions. One in 1990, of Angela Lee Freeman; her body was never found. The second took place in 1991, when Robbie Lee Bond and William Hatcher were abducted by two cousins who then drove to their mobile home to commit the rapes and murders.

This bridge has since been removed and replaced with a modern concrete bridge.

Dear Sir -

Who was McColly and why was the bridge in question named after him or her?

My name is Brent Mitchell, I am posting this comment on behalf of a friend of mine whos father owns some land on turman creek and it happens to be right next to this bridge, although i was only 2 when it got its last "face lift" the bridge still looks as strong as ever. The reason I am posting this is because, my friends father is very interested in the history of Turman Creek and the Native Americans that once lived there. If any one has any information on this it would be very helpful to me in this research that i am doing. Thank you.....

Brent Mitchell

E-mail mitch3_8@yahoo.com

My grandfather told me there was a marker placed in 1927 on this bridge showing the highest mark the river got during the flood. Do you know anything about this?

just found a geocas site on this bridge.

use to drive it all the time, seems strange now.

Mrs. B

from Northridge, Ohio

5-7-06

There is cemetery just on the south side of the bridge, on the left (I believe) towards the Mississippi. Any idea what the name of it is? I thought it would be the Joachim Cemetery - but apparently not.

R/Lance

I also remember ocasionally crossing over the bridge in the mid and late 90's when I had to go from Alton to the Missouri-Illinois Blood Region building at 4050 Lindell and wanted a "short-cut." A couple of times, the automatic coin collectors were jammed and the hoppers were overflowing with change. Then, you would go up on the bridge itself, encountering many of the conditions the previous person commenting has described. Once you got up on the main spans, it wasn't so bad. However, the approaches on the Missouri side were the worst. Apparently the foundations had settled, and the joints (which were like serrated knife blades) were pointed up at a 45 degree angle in some spots. They acted like those like those barriers that they have on parking lots to keep people from leaving without paying. I remember coming to almost a complete stop to avoid damaging my tires while at the same time looking in my rearview mirror to see someone coming at me from the rear at a high rate of speed. Glad to see that the bridge is going to be put back into commission as I believe it is really going to be needed since we don't when (or if) the new interstate bridge is going to be built.

I believe that this bridge was located just south of the Columbia city limits where the line crossed the old GM&O railroad line. The abutments for a bridge over the GM&O were visible for many years but may have been removed in recent years. The was an electric trolley line known as the East St. Louis, Columbia & Waterloo (interurban?) line. It was apparently in business from around the turn of the 20th Century until right before World War II (not sure when it was abandoned) and apparently ran from downtown St. Louis (across the Eads Bridge)through East St. Louis, Maplewood (now part of Cahokia), Cahokia, North Dupo, Dupo, Columbia (right down Main Street) and Waterloo where I believe it terminated. It essentially paralled old Illinois Route 3 and if you look closely, you can still see evidence of the route it took. For instance, it crossed right through the middle of what is now the Dupo Khourey League diamonds. On the north side of the complex, the bridge that carried the line over the creek is still there. I used to ride my bike over that bridge back when I was a kid in the 1960's. From Dupo to Columbia on old Illinois Route 3, the line used to parallel the highway just about a block to the west, where the Ameren/IP power lines now run. My dad knew this line well and said the trolleys travelled very fast along it. He also said that such a line would be a godsend nowadays with all of the traffic congestion. Hope that this helps!

The old bridge crossing the Missouri River at Bolivar Street from Jefferson City to Southern Callaway County was quite unique. The main span of three spans, nearest to Jefferson City on the South side of the river, was supported by a single, round column and was identifiable by the larger superstructure. It was on this single column that the main span of the bridge would rotate 90º to allow boat traffic to pass through due to the limited clearance between the substructure and the river surface. This rotation was effected by a diesel engine below the bridge surface providing power to rotate the deck of the main span. Due to the limited size of the diesel engine, rotation of the bridge was slow and in some cases motor traffic could be disrupted for as long as 45 minutes. Until approximately 1935 the bridge was owned by the JC Bridge Company and a toll was charged to cross the river. In approximately 1935, the bridge was acquired by the Missouri Highway Department and all tolls were dropped. Shortly thereafter a larger diesel engine to rotate the span was installed as well as a control house located in the upper portions of the superstructure of that main span. Shorter rotation times resulted and scheduled opening times decreased the frequency and duration of interruption of bridge traffic. The bridge was replaced in the mid-1950's and was finally torn down in 1958.

My Father, and his before him, worked for MVSS. Thank you for posting the plaque image. That's a great bit of nostalgia.

is all the track still in place on the old roadbed? Email me back if anyone gets time. Very intresting.

I'm not to far from Bigelow. I'd like to see it for myself. Email me with some more imfo!!

I remember crossing that bridge several times when we would go to Judsonia. Always a spookey experience. The floor would make all kinds of cracking and poping noises.

this website doesnt have enough info. for my friend to do her report. HOW RUDE!!

I have crossed that bridge several times as a kid. I'm 31 now so the bridge had been closed to traffic several years before that. The only thing left is the concrete pillars the cables were bolted to. My father said when he was a kid that the school bus would stop short of the bridge. They would have to walk across. Once across the bus would drive across. they would load up and on the way to school they would go! I hated it for everyone the day it collapsed. The times i was there the water was only about 3 to 4 feet deep. I would imagine that the log ties used for the flooring caused a lot of the injurys and deaths along with the fall to shallow water.

It appears this may have replaced a swingbridge, as on one end of it, there's a round bridge abutment, typical of what's under the center of a swingbridge.

Longest railroad bridge in the US

This bridge was also known as the Peal Bend Bridge. Joe Dice built this bridge in 1912 on the downstream end of what was called Peal Bend on the Osage River.

It was 600' long had wooden towers and cost $8,500. In 1924, a tornado(the same storm that took out the original Upper Bridge?) blew down on of the towers. Apparently, the bridge was rebuilt.

I do beleave I know where that bridge use to be. I live around this area.

If you drive to the river access just outside Moselle the last right hand turn just before you get to the parking lot you'll see a pile of dirt on the left of the curve blocking an old rd that leads to where the bridge use to cross.

If you take a boat up the Bourbeuse riverfrom the boat ramp. You'll see the old stone piers along each side of the river.

That's the only bridge I know of that crossed the Bourbeuse river in that area.

here's the lat and long 38.398275 -90.894563

This Bridge and the property around it was owned by my Great grandmother,Josephine Nelch. She donated the bridge and several acres around it to the historical society many years ago. Its was never owened by Mr. Castle. The Nelch family has owned this property for nearly one hundred years and still maintians farms in Chatam and Glenarm adjacent to the bridge property.

I live in Theodosia and it is so beautiful here!!! This is our bridge!!!

I grew up in this area and I think the bridge was built about 1969. It made the news as being the first covered bridge built in Iowa in almost a hundred years.

These two bridges were built in the late very 1980's into the very early 1990's. The east bound was built second (it is located in the same alighnment as the old original bridge that was replaced) and was dedicated in December 1991. The westbound was built first right alongside the original bridge.

What is interesting is that the bridge had a 20 ton load limit. However, trucks hauling coal to the C.I.P.S power plant in Hutsonville ran it so much, Indiana DOT would pull them over under a tree on IN- 154 approx 1 mile before the bridge for an inspection. This probably led to the deterioration of the bridge after only 50 years.

Also, when it was built, it was a toll bridge. the tolls were later removed.

I love this bridge very pretty

keep the bridge but build a new one please

keep the bridge but build a new one please

I was just doing some research on the Shaw Bridge in Arkansas. I am a relative of Bill Shaw, who helped build it.

This bridge is featured in the 1981 movie "Escape From New York" as the "69th Street Bridge" and was also the site of a 1991 rape and murder of two sisters.

I just got back a few minutes ago from the bridge. As children, our families had cabins on the "creek". We went through several floods and survived them all. The last time I visited the area was before my mother died. She wanted to see what "was left after the flood". I wished she could be around today to see your new bridge. What a wonderful job you all did. Thank you. A few tears fell while I stood looking and remembering. Van's Tavern looks the same but much worn with age. As a child, I made the local paper along with my friend when we wrecked our mini bike motorcycles on the bridge.

Again thank you. GREAT JOB!!!

i love this ozark bridge!!! i have noticed that u guys have done alot eith itsinceit was firstbuilt. it looks great.well my cell #is 2090610 and i would love it if u could call me iwould like to talk to someone about this ozark bridge and stuff.so give me a call and if you dont get me at that # heres my home #5821689.

kyli

This structure is not a pony truss. It is actually a Pennsylvania Through Truss.

This bridge looks like a Whipple Truss. Does anyone know the status of this historic bridge?

4/24/06

My Great Uncle helped build this bridge. Do you have a list of the people who helped build this bridge? Or do you know if a list of employees is still available?

Desperate to locate information.

Thanks

Sue

This bridge was torn down a few weeks ago. A part of dyess history gone but not forgotten.

In 1985 my wife and I traveled from Michigan to Texas to visit our daughter. It was the middle of February and we had stayed overnight in southern IL. Getting up early we found that it had snowed several inches and was still snowing. We left following I-57. It was a Sunday morning and there wasn't any traffic at all. It was snowing so hard we couldn't see the road and all I wanted to do was get off that expressway. We came to the Cairo exit and I took it. Followed the road through the town and soon saw the bridge in front of us. Hadn't seen another car the whole time. Continued onto the bridge and thought, "This is a very narrow, old bridge". The glimpses I got of the river were spectacular but too focused on driving to see much. Got us to the other side and followed the levees in MO until we found our way to the expressway again. So that was our visit to Cairo and the historic Cairo Mississippi River Bridge.

Pulaski County recently replaced this bridge.

That's actually one of the most beautiful photos of a bridge that I've seen.

I just crossed this bridge southbound on Thursday, April 13th, and I have to agree with the first poster, although I will say that with all the construction vehcles on the eastern half, it feels as if you have a whole lot less deck to work with. I very definitely had a harder time controlling the car on the metal deck. There was another bridge a lot like this one in Boonville, MO at one time. I didn't like driving over it, either.

This bridge was built with extra wide piers for a possible second track.

Just to let you know, this would be a Union Pacific RR bridge not BNSF.

Used to cross this bridge on my bicycle in the 70s to get to the Chain of Rocks tavern, where a 13 year old could get a cold Bud.

The oak deck was replaced in the mid-late 70s. My friend's dad, who lived in the St. Charles County side and farmed on the Lincoln County side, would park his truck on the south end, then cross the bridge on foot using the iron girders as his path, then climb into his other truck on the north side. Being a farmer, he'd do this before sunrise.

Just looking on websites about the flood of 1993 and found this picture. I live about a mile from the bridge and am proud to be from Blomeyer!

well...I can tell you last summer this line was in operation...know how I know? I was the conductor on the local out of Ste Gen that first day it was open for re-routes to Bismarck...LSH08 was taking loaded lime cars to Bismarck to meet up with the 57 local

The bridge was constructed in 1885-86. When originally built, it had a spin section (still in place) on the Van Buren side of the river. The section would turn out into the river on a Bull Gear mounted on top of the round pier to allow river traffic to proceed. The stones that comprise the piers were quarried from the bluffs of the White River near Eureka Springs.

I would be very interested in any history you may have on this bridge. It is near our home and is very unique. There are what appear to be jail cells on both ends under the structure. They are large rooms with concrete walls and one small barred window on each side.Towns people rumor that it was built by prisoners who used to be left in these cells at the end of the day rather than transporting them all back to town. Any info would be great!

Thanks,

Tara

I was born on the road this bridge is on. I crossed it all my life coming out to the hiway to go into town or to church or school.

It in now repaired & replaced with a concrete bridge. Installed about two years ago.

I miss the old wooden bridge and the holding of one's breath as you took chances of crossing the old wooden bridge....

The bridge used to be on my Great Grandparent's land (William Columbus and Verna Marble Kehr of Meadville, Missouri.) They made a traded land with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources so the department could acquire the land where the bridge is located. My Grandparents, Owen and Lois Kehr and my Mother's Cousin, Ralph Kehr still live within walking distance of the bridge and I have spent a great deal of time down at the Locust Creek Bridge.

I have just purchased a sail boat and I'm wondering the clearance height of Hurricane Deck bridge at full 6:60 level....Please, also let me know the new bridge on 54 highway and also the height of the new toll bridge on the Lake of the Ozarks....thanks Jim Franklin

I too love this bridge. I have also heard talk about a new bridge but not sure when it will be built. If a new bridge is built i would like to see the old bridge kept around and used as a tourist attraction.

The old bridge across the Tallahatchie River on Union County Mississippi Road 115 is the orgional Mississippi State Hwy 15 Bridge. The Miss Hwy Dept built the present day Hwy 15 before my birth and Im almost forty and the old hwy became property of Union County Supervisors and became a county road. The follows more or less and old indian trail that led from Ripley Mississippi to Pontotoc Mississippi. The Indians that lived along the west bank of the Tallahatchie were known as Albanio Indians and the town of New Albany took its name from the indians and currupted the spelling into Albany. As a child i waded the Tallahatchie with my older brothers underneath this bridge and up until recently the road and bridge were in use but at present the road is closed at the bridge and the north end of the bridge is destroyed. The Hwy 15 bridge is less than a half mile from the old bridge and is in view from this bridge. The contract is underway to replace the Hwy 15 bridge within view again with a four lane state hwy and I wonder if the new concrete bridge that took the place of this old iron bridge will fall by the wayside just like the old iron bridge it replaced. I can make pics of other Union County Mississippi bridges if anyone is interested in one.

this bridge is haunted. if anyone has any reports or info on who 'eric' is, please email me. if you want to get scared, go out there one night. you wont be disappointed.

I hope this bridge dosen't fall while you are walking on it!!

This bridge is in the works to being apart of the Waterfront Park in Louisville. When the bridge is completed, it will be used as a walk over bridge over the Ohio River. A great example of a bridge being reused as such is the Chain of Rocks Bridge in St. Louis.

I have lived in the neighborhood of the Stone Bridge all my life .( 62 years ) When I was a child I played under the bridge. I would be agreeable to support a restoration effort if I possibly am able to do so. Thank you P Combs for posting the pictures.

Nice bridges!

James,

This bridge is gone, replaced by a new bridge in 2005.

Jack

This bridge has be torn down and rebuilt. It is now open.

This bridge has been torn down and rebuilt. It is soon to reopen.

Great website. I did notice that you have Pudge Combs name spelled wrong. It is Combs, not Coombs.

Thanks,

Doug

The 27th Street Viaduct is in the process of being replaced. Construction started during the 4Q of 2005. I'm not sure when it is scheduled to be completed.

The bridge is the the first iron bridge I have ever walked across. I can remember when I was about seven when my parents and my great-grandparents took me down to this bridge and then my dad picked me up and stood me on the railing. It was quite scary. To this day it is a favorite hobby of mine to walk across bridges, especially antique ones. I have walked across the Brooklyn Bridge in NYC, walked across the famous drawbridges across the Chicago River in Chicago, walked across Chain of Rocks 66 Bridge in St. Louis, the Seven Mile Bridge in Key West, Fl, some covered bridges in Alabama and South Carolina, the 2nd Street Bridge in Louisville, Ky, and numerous other old bridges. The Green Valley Bridge in Columbia, Mo is my favorite though because it reminds me of when I would visit my grandparents every summer in Columbia, MO.

That is sad news, indeed. Joe Dice's creations are becoming more rare. It's too bad there aren't any options available for saving and relocating a swinging bridge like there are for truss bridges.

When is replacement supposed to take place?

After spending the day shopping at the Osage Beach outlet mall, I drove my wife and kids to Brumley to show them the engineering marvel that is the Grand Auglaize swinging bridge. They were thrilled. . .no really!

We checked out the Mill Creek Bridge first then drove over to the Grand Auglaize Bridge. Of course, I was too chicken to drive over it. . .again. I would've had to enjoy the experience alone anyway. I know there would be no way on God's green Earth that my wife and kids would stay in the truck with me.

I was impressed that my wife and kids actually walked across it. . .until they came up to the first HUGE gap between the boards. The gap was big enough that our two year old son could've fallen through!

I walked over to the other side and took a few pictures but when I got halfway across on the way back . . .danged if someone wasn't driving down the road from whence I came! I really didn't think it wise to get caught walking on that bridge with someone else DRIVING across it at the same time. So, much to the amusement of my wife, I took off sprinting to safety hoping I wouldn't trip between between any two boards. Fortunately, I made it with a few seconds to spare. . .

Ther are some rumors that this bridge will be replaced in the next few years

"Local traffic only" ...that's interesting. What does that even mean, and who is enforcing it? It is totally amazing that the unwrapped cable pictured is going into a concrete anchor where it can't be inspected and the other side is in contact with the ground, where IT can't be inspected. It's a beautiful bridge but every day that bridge remains standing is a miracle.

Can you send some pictures of it?

Can you send some pictures of it?

the bridge pictured on the post card is the Union covered Bridge. It is still in existance (one of 4 covered bridges in Missouri).

This bridge is undergoing repairs to the deck at the present time, we are putting a new metal grid deck in place of the wooden floor that was on it. We have also put new steel stringer beams on it at this time. The county plans to rehab the entire bridge in a couple years.

What a truly amazing bridge! I crossed this with a Lincoln towncar in the summer of 2005 and it showed what "redundancy" is all about. Even though many of the individual wires of the main cables were broken, the evidence of the value of multiple wires in a cable shows the superior strenth-to-weight ratio of suspension bridges over other types that cross such large spans. Anyone interested in this type of engineering should visit this bridge. I hope this bridge is preserved for future bridge enthusiests for this is truly a time-tested engineering marvel and shows what can be acheived with proper engineering and design.

FYI I am a Grandchild of Ray and Anna Kliethermes for whom the bridge was named. We have been told they, the county, are tearing the bridge down due to instability. The family is very saddened by this news, we've had many memories with this bridge.

Hello,

I am trying to locate a nice picture of the Murray Baker Bridge. Do you have one in your archives? I would especially like one of the new rennovated bridge.

Thanks,

Dale

If I remember right, this bridge is part of a 99 year lease that the railroad retains. Somehow, this lease works out that the bridge will be maintained by the RR for the most part, and can not be demolished so long as they keep "ownership" of it.

jack oriley eats people's shit for a living. he doesnt a know a good bridge if it jizzed on his back. fuck that guy, and fuck his family. he will probably die from an assortment of cancers, i will feed his corpse to an incinerator. what a DICK!

Jack O'Riley is goddamn moron. This bridge is new and full of nicely polish metals.

There has also been a rumor that a private orginization would like to build apartments on the bridge, in such a way to allow for a "waterfront" view.

When I was a little kid in the 60s, my parents would travel from Atlanta, TX to Sumner, IL. We would leave after my parents left work. We would reach this bridge late at night. I remember the excitement but the gut wrenching fear was almost overwhelming. The bridge was so massive and high in the air. I always knew that a section of the bridge would be missing and we would fall in. A childs imagination. I am planning a trip in June 2006 with my mother, wife and 15 year old son. I cannot wait to relive this childhood memory.

I grew up around this bridge. It had always had an attraction to me as to its design and subsequent abandonment. I remember hopper cars crossing it in the late 1970's to the clay mines to the west.

Years of neglect allowed tons of debris to accumulate against the supporting structure and fires set by vandals weakend the structure to collapse.

I remember seeing one support collapse and float downstream to where it destroyed a low water pedestrian bridge at Westminster college.

Even though I wish to see a passenger rail service restored to Cedar City, this bridge needs to be dismantled as it is a dangerous and attractive hazard to children and adults.

The Wheeling Suspension bridge is still very much still in use. It was revamped recently (1999 I think?) with some updated cables and decking. If you visit Wheeling again be sure to give it a cross.

I have many, many fond memories of crossing this bridge as a young child and into adulthood. I remember crossing many times when there was flooding below and wondering, wood the water ever rise to the bottom of the bridge, I don't believe it ever has. Many young men used this bridge in the 70's to as they called it to "blow the soot" out of their souped up cars. It was also used (not offically of course) on many a summer night as a 1/4 mile dragstrip in the 60's and 70's. Those "WERE" to good old days. As I now live out of state I have not crossed this bridge since the 90's. I would love to cross it again in the future and show this wonderess bridge to my boys.

This bridge is sweet! :)<---(this was supposed to be a smilly face) how long did it take y'all, and how ya do it? It makes me wonder where we got the tecnology, time, and material to do things like this. Anyways, I'll find time later to wonder. This is Kendra Miller from Amarillo Texas wishing New Orleans luck. I wish my group had more time than we did to help y'all out. Bye.

The only thing i wonder about the Causeway Bridge is how long did it take to build it and how'd y'all do it?

The name Henkins is not hyfinated. It is not Henkin's as in plural. The Henkins originated from Germany to W. Virgina then to IL,Missouri and WI. And beyond. The original farm back in W.Virgina is still in the family today. I would like to know more about the origin of the bridge and it's history.

man you scare easy, I go to high school near the bridge and my job is across the bridge I cross it daily, its a little annoying right now though because of them repainting but it is a great bridge, YOU and about 50% of my high school a scared to cross it, I have lived by that bridge ALL MY LIFE! I have been across in pick-up trucks, cars, motorcycles, and semis (MY DAD DRIVES SEMIS) the bridge is very well designed. It got hit by a barge in around 2000, IT WAS LOUD, but the bridge took it, Didn’t even half to close it. They recently upgraded it. with solar powered cameras and a fiber optic cable that crosses it.

"On October 28, 1989, the Swinging Bridge collapsed and fell into the Little Red River, when approximately forty people were on the bridge, swinging it from side to side. Five people were killed and many others were injured."

When I was in the military, they had us walk across bridges break-step rather than march in lock-step across them so as to NOT impart a rhythmic load on the bridge. Apparently this is why.

Once when I was in Chicago at the Lake-Front Air and Water Show, there were hunbdreds of thousands of people crossing the pedestrian bridges over Lake Shore Drive and this particular bridge was sagging and swaying under the load. My niece and nephew and me went an alternate route....but as it turned out, nothing happened to any of the bridges that day. However, there was a tunnel running under LSD not far down the road. It's always better to be safe than sorry.....well worth the time to err on the side of caution and avoid mass hysteria scenarios.

"On October 28, 1989, the Swinging Bridge collapsed and fell into the Little Red River, when approximately forty people were on the bridge, swinging it from side to side. Five people were killed and many others were injured."

When I was in the military, they had us walk across bridges break-step rather than march in lock-step across them so as to NOT impart a rhythmic load on the bridge. Apparently this is why.

Once when I was in Chicago at the Lake-Front Air and Water Show, there were hunbdreds of thousands of people crossing the pedestrian bridges over Lake Shore Drive and this particular bridge was sagging and swaying under the load. My niece and nephew and me went an alternate route....but as it turned out, nothing happened to any of the bridges that day. However, there was a tunnel running under LSD not far down the road. It's always better to be safe than sorry.....well worth the time to err on the side of caution and avoid mass hysteria scenarios.

In 1982, the local newspapers reported the results of tests conducted by engineers in response to Quorum Court concerns that the bridge was deteriorating. The engineers reported that the bridge was sturdy, capable of supporting pedestrian traffic for another 50 to 100 years, and that the interior of the cables was shiny and rust free. Although the engineers recommended ultrasound testing on the bridge cables and application of a protective coating on the cables to prevent further rusting, the Quorum Court initiated no further tests or treatment.

On October 28, 1989, the Swinging Bridge collapsed and fell into the Little Red River, when approximately forty people were on the bridge, swinging it from side to side. Five people were killed and many others were injured.

Noticed error in Latitude/Longitude. Should be:

+38.60362ºN, -91.99400ºW Decimal place was off on Longitude.

Wayne Johnson

I will always remember riding my bike across the bridge and looking down at the river as kids. I really miss this bridge. I bring my little ones down where is used to stand, and it really seems empty.

How long it took to build, this bridge?

How many lives were lost? While building this bridge?

How deep is the mississippi river?

How much it cost, to maintain the maintenance?

i just cant beleive that they built a new one instead of reconstructing the old one. all of the supports are still there it is not lost. you can still see it from the new bridge .

That's the Narrow's Bridge..

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peace

i grew up just 3 miles from this bridge and even went to school my 5th and 6th grade years at Burfordville School. I remember hauling hay as a kid from the hayfield just past the covered bridge, which was my great uncle joe's property. We brought some pretty good loads of hay across that bridge and all of our equipment as well. that was when the bridge was open for all traffic. i then got married in the yard beside of the old mill with the view of the covered bridge in the background. That place has a lot of memories for me and they all make me smile!

My brother-in-law, James M. Castle, developed residential property on Sugar Creek, known as "Covered Bridge Acres". The property for the residential development included the covered bridge. Jim apparently deeded the bridge to a historical society sometime before his death. I have often travelled the old road and enjoy reading about its present status.