In looking around on the internet tonight, I came on a group of 16 photographs from Christian County in the American Memory On-Line Exhibit at the Library of Congress. The photos are of the Howard Ford Bridge, constructed 1921 across the James River near Nixa. I'm not entirely clear exactly where this is, but I haven't read all the documentation yet. If you would like to see them, you can go to the Library of Congress website, select American Memory on do a search or use this link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(MISSOURI-Christian+County))

I could not find the photos of the Howard Ford Bridge. I couldn't figure out what subject to specify when I got to the American Memory Collection. Could you be more specific? The link you gave did not work for me. Thanks. Dorothy In looking around on the internet tonight, I came on a group of 16 photographs from Christian County in the American Memory On-Line Exhibit at the Library of Congress. The photos are of the Howard Ford Bridge, constructed 1921 across the James River near Nixa. I'm not entirely clear exactly where this is, but I haven't read all the documentation yet. If you would like to see them, you can go to the Library of Congress website, select American Memory on do a search or use this link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(MISSOURI-Christian+County)) ==== MOCHRIST Mailing List ==== Don't forget the USGenWeb Archives section.... http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx

Dorothy McCurdy wrote: > I could not find the photos of the Howard Ford Bridge. I couldn't figure out what subject to specify when I got to the American Memory Collection. Could you be more specific? The link you gave did not work for me. Thanks. Dorothy > > > Sorry. I tried cutting and pasting the link several times before I posted the message. It worked every time, though I thought it might not, being a query link. I didn't read the 19 pages of narrative and footnotes - or I would have known exactly where the bridge was. It was just south of the Greene County Line. The Library of Congress website address is: http://www.loc.gov/index.html Across the top of the site are links to major portions of the site, including American Memory. The direct address there is: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html The photographs of bridges are in the Architecture and Engineering HABS-HAER Built in America Link http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/browse/ListSome.php?category=Architecture,+Landscape or http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/habs_haer/ At any of these stages, you can enter your search in the search box. I had entered Christian County, Missouri, but Howard Ford Bridge would bring up the same results, as should several other searches, including bridges. You can also browse, by subject or place. Since the collections are so large, browsing is more time consuming. The place browse is first by state, then county, then vicinity. By browsing, I saw there was a collection from Clearwater Beach, Vanzant, Douglas County; three bridges at Ash Grove in Greene County; two other bridges and the Ray House in Greene County but near the Howard Ford Bridge; fifty-one other collections in Greene County; and the Hootentown Bridge and Wilderness Fire Lookout Tower in Stone County. Good luck.

NOOOOO --- No pictures of the bridge that scared the daylights out of me everytime the school bus crossed it! That thing made the most noise and it never seemed stable to me. There were wooden "tire paths" that went vertically across the horizontal bridge structure. I was terrifed we would slip off the path and land in the river. The view from the bus was bad enough -- but to top it off we crossed it every Sunday going to church in Nixa in the car. I would close my eyes and hum until we got it across it. Truely, the noise was worse than the view of that narrow path. The only time I remotely felt comfortable crossing that bridge was on the occasional hay ride. The noise was not so bad going slow. Great site -- bad subject for me. If I have that reoccuring nightmare from my childhood tonight, I will know to be more careful opening links on this list. Brenda "Mabel G. Phillips" <mphillip@christiancounty.lib.mo.us> wrote: In looking around on the internet tonight, I came on a group of 16 photographs from Christian County in the American Memory On-Line Exhibit at the Library of Congress. The photos are of the Howard Ford Bridge, constructed 1921 across the James River near Nixa. I'm not entirely clear exactly where this is, but I haven't read all the documentation yet. If you would like to see them, you can go to the Library of Congress website, select American Memory on do a search or use this link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(MISSOURI-Christian+County)) ==== MOCHRIST Mailing List ==== Don't forget the USGenWeb Archives section.... http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx Brenda Gardner Christian County GenWeb Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~mochrist/

:) Brenda Brenda Gardner <brendamogen@yahoo.com> wrote: NOOOOO --- No pictures of the bridge that scared the daylights out of me everytime the school bus crossed it! That thing made the most noise and it never seemed stable to me. There were wooden "tire paths" that went vertically across the horizontal bridge structure. I was terrifed we would slip off the path and land in the river. The view from the bus was bad enough -- but to top it off we crossed it every Sunday going to church in Nixa in the car. I would close my eyes and hum until we got it across it. Truely, the noise was worse than the view of that narrow path. The only time I remotely felt comfortable crossing that bridge was on the occasional hay ride. The noise was not so bad going slow. Great site -- bad subject for me. If I have that reoccuring nightmare from my childhood tonight, I will know to be more careful opening links on this list. Brenda "Mabel G. Phillips" wrote: In looking around on the internet tonight, I came on a group of 16 photographs from Christian County in the American Memory On-Line Exhibit at the Library of Congress. The photos are of the Howard Ford Bridge, constructed 1921 across the James River near Nixa. I'm not entirely clear exactly where this is, but I haven't read all the documentation yet. If you would like to see them, you can go to the Library of Congress website, select American Memory on do a search or use this link: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/hh:@field(SUBJ+@od1(MISSOURI-Christian+County)) ==== MOCHRIST Mailing List ==== Don't forget the USGenWeb Archives section.... http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx Brenda Gardner Christian County GenWeb Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~mochrist/ ==== MOCHRIST Mailing List ==== Donations and volunteers being accepted now. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~mochrist/ for more details ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx Brenda Gardner Christian County GenWeb Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~mochrist/

Brenda Gardner wrote: >:) > > Brenda > >Brenda Gardner <brendamogen@yahoo.com> wrote: > NOOOOO --- No pictures of the bridge that scared the daylights out of me everytime the school bus crossed it! That thing made the most noise and it never seemed stable to me. There were wooden "tire paths" that went vertically across the horizontal bridge structure. I was terrifed we would slip off the path and land in the river. The view from the bus was bad enough -- but to top it off we crossed it every Sunday going to church in Nixa in the car. I would close my eyes and hum until we got it across it. Truely, the noise was worse than the view of that narrow path. The only time I remotely felt comfortable crossing that bridge was on the occasional hay ride. The noise was not so bad going slow. >Great site -- bad subject for me. If I have that reoccuring nightmare from my childhood tonight, I will know to be more careful opening links on this list. >Brenda > > > I discovered a memory from my own childhood on the website - the Hwy 65 bridge over the Buffalo River near St. Joe, Arkansas. We often went swimming, held picnics and had 4th of July celebrations there. The view from both sides when crossing the bridge was very beautiful. The new bridge is much wider and safer - not to mention a much less dangerous approach, but you hardly notice that you are on a bridge and it's pretty difficult to even see the river when crossing it. Even that old Hwy 65 bridge wasn't the higher and more spectacular bridge near Hasty which inspired a family folklore story. My middle brother when he first crossed it as age four commented in awe, as the car began climbing the opposite hill, "So THAT was the Buffalo Ocean!"

I know this is not in Greene or Christian County, but it is SW MO related, and thought that someone might be able to help. I am looking for information on a Bookout Cabin, possibly located in or near Branson. It was possibly donated to the state in the 1920s. Thanks in advance! Meg Gentry Bookout