Friday, December 29, 2006

The Old Overhead Bridge


The overhead bridge linked Church Street and Winchester Avenue above the Seaboard Railroad tracks. The business in the center of this picture is Henderson Roller Mill.


An enlargement allows us to read the sign on the building, “Henderson Roller Mill Co. – Home of Mystic Flour.” Apparently, the grain cars on the right delivered the raw material (wheat) for processing and the finished product (flour) was loaded back onto rail cars to the left for distribution across the country – a fairly sophisticated operation.

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Another view of the old overhead bridge is from a postcard dated 1913 (Source: Looking Back at Monroe's History, by Virginia A. S. Kendrick).

Some of the concrete supporting pillars are still standing alongside the railroad tracks today but the overhead bridge was torn down in the 1950’s when the new Skyway Bridge was opened for traffic.

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH BY JOHN GULLEDGE

posted by Mystery Blogger @ 9:22 PM   1 comments

1 Comments:

At 9:57 PM, January 20, 2007, Blogger JOHN GULLEDGE said...

The photo of Hendereson Roller Mill was probably made for an insurance company. If you will notice the roof is gone and you can see down in the building. I remember at the time of the fire the weather was very cold and the firemen had a hard time fighting this fire because of freezing weather. About the Over Head Bridge, I beleive this is the best picture of that I have of that bridge.

 

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