This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gray Classification: Military Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4241.6 Message Board Post: MISSOURI INTELLIGENCER. Franklin, Missouri. May 6, 1823.-- We noticed some weeks since that a road lately had been completed from Fort Atkinson (Council Bluffs) to Liberty in this State, distance about 300 miles -- since which we have learned that this road was opened under the inspection of Capt. J.S. Gray, by 24 soldiers of the 6th Regiment, U. S. Infantry in 40 days, between the 1st of January and the 10th of February, last. During this time, 19 bridges and 5 canoes were built. The bridges except one, are constructed of round logs, with log pen abbutments and covered with poles or split timber. Those over the largest streams are from 30 to 85 feet long and from 15 to 20 feet high. -- The canoes were placed at the fords of the Nichanabottana, Tinkio, Nodawa, (sic)Buchanans Fork and the northwest branch of the Platte Rivers, at all which places are good fords with firm sand or rock bottoms. N.B.: Here we have it stated that the bridge over what was called for a long time "High Bridge Creek", located between Hamburg and Linden, Missouri, had a floor high above the bed of the stream. ALSO, it very well could have been one of those which were covered bridges. High Creek extended northeastward into southeastern Fremont county which named a post office after the stream.--W.F.