High water	Ice

Aerial View

 

1943	Madison Milton Bridge

Bridge Construction, 1929

 

Milton Madison Bridge, 1934
from the US Army, Chief of Engineers

. . . and then there was the guy who bought a haunted house in Madison and wanted to move it to Kentucky.

When a serious effort was made to bridge the Ohio between Lamb and Carrollton, the Milton-Madison bridge owners published a booklet on why that was a really bad idea. You can read it here. (pdf)

December 27, 1929	Aerial view of Milton, Kentucky, when the bridge opened

 

That's Indiana Governor Harry Leslie on the right.  Kentucky's
governor didn't make it to the bridge dedication.

 

Folks on the bridge at the dedication

The new bridge inspires poetry.

 

Toward Milton

 

From a Facebook post by Bob Boyd	Harry Leman, photo

The bridge opened as a toll bridge, but was freed on November 1, 1947. 
The story of the bridge, from the 1947 dedication booklet, is here.

  

Milton's parade float in the bridge opening parade

The Madison Milton Bridge opened on December 20, 1929.  There was a parade, and speakers, and a fly over, led by H.  Weir Cook (Wikipedia), which dropped floral arrangements on the bridge along with 1000's of congratulatory leaflets.

The Slide.
They built the new bridge next to the old one, and then slid it over to the piers of the old bridge.

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