bridges around table rock
fROM THE 1882 TOME "aNDREAS' HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEBRASKA."
This is in the Pawnee County section under he heading Means of Communication:
It was not, however, until 1868, that the county really began to pay sufficient attention to the building of good bridges across Turkey Creek and South and North Fork. During this year, one was built south of Pawnee City, a second across South Fork, near the Fries Mill, and a third across the North Fork, near the Table Rock Mill. The county is now abundantly supplied.
SOME RANDOM IMAGES & articles iN NO PARTICULAR ORDER
Photo 425, north of town
Photo 869, bridge north of town
Photo 425, appears to be the bridge over Taylor Creek during flood stage. Note the brick sidewalk, which reportedly ran from the depot to the Square.
Photo 675. The bridge over Taylor Creek during the 1915 flood. The house in the foreground was torn down and Donnie Kalina's house built there. The next house is still there but encased within extensive remodeling. The third house is still there but in worse shape. The remainder of the houses on the block are gone.
Photo 1633, bridge near Cincinnati/Dubois
Photo 1694. Photo by Archer King, then of Table Rock. The location of the bridge was not identified.
Photo 1301. Photo by Archer King, then of Table Rock.
Photo 3028, bridge over the Nemaha being built: shared by Steve Russell. He sent it with an email that said, "Hello,I was going through some old pictures from my father’s estate and found this picture that you might be interested in. The description on the back reads, “Piers for bridge across Nemaha River east of Table Rock, Nebr., April, 1941.”
My father, Ross Russell, was raised in Nemaha County (Nemaha and Peru). Hope you can find a place on your website for this." Boy, could we! Great picture!
Steve Russell
Chattanooga, TN
July 21, 1916
Photo 563. McCourtneys moving another house.
Photo 8, date and location uncertain
1951
Arvid Blecha took this picture . It is in an album of pictures dated 1941 and 1942.. He labeled it as "The Overhead Bridge."
1925
1973
1929, Junior class picnic on the Nemaha, from Mary Snabl Sturgeon's photo album
From Lou Fencl's photo album, which consists of pictures taken in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Photo 3370.
1951
circa 1941-2, Bridge on bottom road north of town, by arvid blecha
1960 - bridge collapse
Thanks to Bobbie Vondrasek for sharing these family photos of the bulldozer being rescued.
modern pictures
2020 - bridge on 715 road, between highway 4 &
the old purcell homestead to the east
Photo 8577, by Sharla Sitzman
I know that bridge well! all of us kids and some of our boyfriends would carve our name in the bridge with a sharp rock. |
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Wayne Knippelmeyer, commented on the good shape that the bridge sidings are in after all thee years.
That bridge must have been wide enough for 4 row machinery or to hard to widen. This is a picture of a bridge in Nemaha county where they attempted to slant the rails so 4 row machinery could cross. By the looks of the rails there were several mishaps! 
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2015 - Bridge below the old Marble Farmstead Site
known locally as the vondrasek bridge
it has been closed for several years
2015 - Bridge over taylor creek, south of hwy 65
2010 - 2019, the railroad bridge over taylor branch
December 2010, by Sharla Sitzman.
After lots of rain. June 2015 by Sharla Sitzman
January 12, 2019, a cloudy morning after six inches of heavy snow fell. Photo 6866, by Kim Vrtiska.
Photo 8548, February 14, 2010, by Sharla Sitzman
From GoogleEarth, January 2019 (Google Earth view is not current.)
near the richardson county line
2016
This bridge is across Dry Branch Creek on 711 Road. It may be on the Richardson County side of the line in the Dry Branch area, which straddles the two counties.
Photo 4401a
Photo 4401b
Photo 4401c
The road dips down toward the trees. That's where the bridge is. The trees line the creek.
A view from GoogleEarth.com, of 711 Road crossing Dry Branch creek, approximate center of the photo.
