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Huntington's Buildings over the River: IN433 |
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Huntington's Buildings over the River:
Controversy to Controversy
Huntington's Ford and First Bridge
Side one:
After fighting off a city injunction, A. J. Johnson erected two-story buildings (c 1900) over Little River beside the south span of the steel twin bridge built in 1891. Shops, offices and dwellings were housed here until the structures were condemned unsafe. The Southside Businessmen's Association spruced up the fronts, and the Art Guild donated colorful murals to cover 18 upper windows. Following years of controversy, the buildings were razed in 1977 by order of the state. [illustration] Side two:
Pioneers forded Little River from Charles Street diagonally across just below the Island to the Court House. A dugout canoe, when hailed, carried pedestrians across for .50 cents. Reportedly Indians had used this ford when traveling to The Forks. The first truss bridge over Little River was built here at the ford. It was accepted in December 1843. [illustration]
South Side Business Association and Huntington County Historical Society, 1979.
Jefferson St., @ Little River Bridge, Huntington, Huntington County Indiana
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