Just trying out my new star filter I bought for night photography …
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A few weeks ago I wrote about an effort to save Ball’s Bridge in Huron County, Ontario, built in 1884, from demolition. I’m happy to report that this morning, I received an email stating that the bridge has been saved. The Huron County Council voted to transfer ownership of the bridge to two local townships, as well as grant $250,000 to rehabilitate it.
This is great news! I wish those involved great success as the bridge is rehabilitated, and I hope that one day I will be able to see it myself.
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I happened across the web site that TDOT has set up for the dissemination of news about the Market Street Bridge project this morning. Said web site has a scanned copy of an article from the News-Free Press from 1985 discussing the bridge’s history. What I find most interesting is that the article opens by noting that TDOT had recently decreed that the bridge would need to be replaced. Apparently, Chattanooga residents didn’t like that idea, and here, twenty years down the road, the bridge is being renovated so that it can (hopefully) serve us for another eighty years or so.
I’m glad sanity prevailed and we still have the bridge with us. Not only is it cool and beautiful … it has significant historical value. I only hope that we will see the value in other historical truss bridges in this state, like the Marion Memorial Bridge, and save them as well …
Read More: Chief John Ross ‘Bascule’ Bridge Regarded As Unique Landmark
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I just started poking around at my photos from the weekend again … and found a few that I was really happy with. I love the color in this one!
Yeah, I’m going to run out of images to post here pretty soon. But … I’m having way too much fun.
I took this photo on the bridge, pre-renovation. It was a rather gloomy day out, and a little bit of Photoshopping made the day even more so …
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Recently found a site about an endangered through truss bridge in Ontario that locals are working to save. This particular bridge has something of an interesting story behind it …
Several generations ago, a young Miss Ball and her mother needed to travel to Goderich.The story continues that the bridge was built so Miss Ball and her friends and family didn’t have to wade across the river any more … and eventually, Miss Ball and the engineer were married.In 1884, the trek from Ball’s property to the region’s centre was not the convenient jaunt into town it is today. It was a labourous experience through forested paths and across the Maitland.
In those days when the Balls forged the river, Daryl says, they had no choice other than to take off their shoes and socks and wade across.
It was on a trip to buy sugar, Daryl adds, that Miss Ball was spotted by the engineer for the new Goderich bridge, built on the banks of the Maitland in Saltford.
“The engineer for the Goderich bridge fell in love with the Ball daughter,” Daryl reveals.
I wish these folks the best of luck in their endeavors. I think that story itself is good enough reason to save the bridge!
Petition: Repair and Re-Open Ball’s Bridge
Shot from the overlook up at the Bluff View art district.
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I was just going through some of my photos in order to compile some of them for possible use in a presentation at church, and I ran across some of the fall photos I took last year around Black Mountain. They don’t have the same level of quality as the ones I’ve been taking with my new camera (wow, they are noisy!) but the color is really, really good. So … I thought I’d post a few of them. I took these down on NC 9 (loved that road!) between Black Mountain and Bat Cave (you gotta love the name …).
We may not live there any more, but Black Mountain and Buncombe will always have a special place in my heart … and these photos remind me of the good times we had there.
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