Bridge successions: two sightings, and the settler for the sites

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AUDIT ROW #433 · THE "FREE BRIDGE" (SEC. 26, T36N R1W) · THE IP&C BRIDGE AT MUD LAKE

The river crossings of record for this ground stand as two sightings, printed as sightings: a "Free Bridge" in section 26, Township 36 North, Range 1 West, and the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa — the IP&C — railway bridge at Mud Lake. A succession (first bridge, replacements, the present structure, each dated) wants the county bridge record — commissioners' bridge lettings and the modern bridge inventory — which is named here as the item's settler for every site. What the sightings establish is the pattern: the township's river crossings were county road and railroad works at the marsh's edge, maintained as infrastructure, uncelebrated in print — and a bridges article built from the sightings alone would be two sentences long, which is why this one prints the sightings, names the settler, and stops.

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Source: Bridge successions: two sightings, and the settler for the sites, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/rivers/bridge-successions-two-sightings-and-the-settler-for-the/

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