Hi, Thank you very much for this message. My uncle (Raymond Davis) was in the CCC camp that worked on the Yamacraw road. I have a picture of the CCC camp and will add your message to the album. :) Mary Lou Hudson Claypool, IN ----- Original Message ----- From: <KDJ1933@aol.com> To: <KYMCCREA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 5:21 PM Subject: Re: [KYMCCREA] Yamacaw > In reference to the bridge at Yamacraw: The main bridge was built by the > Stearns Coal & Lumber Company for the K & T Railway (Kentucky/Tenessee), and was > owned by the Stearns Coal & Lumber Company. It was for railway only. People did > foot walk it. > > This bridge is still standing to this day. There are no tracks on the bridge. > The only other bridge at Yamacraw to my knowledge is the Raised Ford Bridge, > meaning the bridge was raised up just above the water. That is the only name I > have ever heard it called. When we crossed the river, the expression was, 'we > forded the river.' This may be where the name came from. The bridge was built > by the CCC. The road to this bridge no longer exist. If the water was low > enough you forded right through the water. I was told by my mother that in the > winter sometimes the water would be so frozen that people with their wagons and > other vehicles of that time, actually were able to cross right across the ice. > > The road from Hill Top (where I was born) down to the Yamacraw Raised Ford > Bridge, was also built by the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps). The Raised Ford > Bridge was down stream from the railway bridge by approximately 500 to 1000 > feet, plus or minus. > > At first the Raised Ford Bridge was the only way for traffic to cross over > the Big South Fork River to Walls Town; Comargo; Koger Hallow; Oz, later called > Paint Cliff; Co-op and Bell Farm. These are all mining communities. From Bell > Farm there was a wagon trail all the way to TN. I have walked it many times as > a teenager. > > In the late thirties and early forties, the bridge that crossed over the Big > South Fork at Wolf Creek was built (KY Hwy. #92) to Monticello. This is the > only bridge that is traveled today. > > Kenneth D. Jones > Born and raised at Hill Top, KY > > > ==== KYMCCREA Mailing List ==== > If you wish to unsubscribe from the KYMCCREA Mailing List, send only the word > UNSUBSCRIBE to KYMCCREA-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM or if you are > on the Digest List to KYMCCREA-D-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >