Sugar Creek Bridge, on US 42, above
Warsaw
Thanks to Bill Davis for this one!
left, Sugar Creek Bend, East of Warsaw, aka
Jacksons Landing
right, bridge over US 42 at Sugar Creek Bend
(pre-Markland Dam. Note corn in field at right)
Sugar Creek Scenes, 1937 Flood
Absolutely you don't want to miss the account of Nathan
Brown, who ran a store boat on
the Ohio River. His adventures at Sugar Creek in the Civil War are
transcribed here.
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"The Canton Bridge Company have a contract to build an iron bridge over Sugar Creek." Gallatin Co item published in the Owen County Democrat, November 26, 1886 |
The John Dana, in the ice at Sugar Creek, December, 1892
The 1942 Kentucky Highway Department Report, offered this
scene as an example of
how counties can create attractive "roadside parks and overlooks."
Sugar Creek Overlook, 1949
Sugar Creek Church of Christ
Rev. Irv Stephenson's history of the church is here.
Where the old church was, here.
The dedication of the new church,
here. (pdf)
Rev. Irv Stephenson is fourth from the left, in the front.
1957
1930's - 1946
The above four pics are all Sugar Creek Church congregations
The new Sugar Creek Church of Christ
Dedicated August 2, 1953
Sugar Creek Bridge, October, 1937
Sugar Creek Ramp, before the Dam is finished
Sugar Creek, before and after Markland Pool
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In 1918 there was a huge ice dam that formed at Sugar Creek. It effectively dammed up the Ohio, creating high water all the way back to Cincinnati. Nothing scared the old time river men like ice, because when an ice dam breaks, and they always break, they create a fast moving torrent not only of water, but of giant pieces of ice that will destroy a steamboat or anything else in its path. When the 1918 dam broke on January 30, 1918, the water in Cincinnati fell from 62 feet to 20 feet in 2 hours, destroying any number of steam boats. |