To: Miss Augusta Gehrke, Manawa, Wis. RFD #1, postmarked 13 Jan 1913 From: Unknown Can you see Archie on this postal Dear old friend I must let you now [sic] we are all alive yet. well how is everybody getting along well I hope. This is the bridge Archie helped put up it is all finished now it looks dandy it is half a mile frome [sic] us we had a big old time to one of our neighbors last saturday night--Dear Old--I wish I could see you if it only was a little Wase Alpha is a big girl she visited school the other all a lone write soon. Written to the side: we have had storm awfull [sic] old weather but it is fine now it is like spring I wish it was. Bye Bye

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I am about positive this is the old bridge just west of where the Schwarze's & Warner's lived at the end of Begley Street which becomes Co. Rd. G as you leave Greenwood.  The old one was that type, and then when my brother Dick and I were kids, they built the "new" one - more "Modern" looking, Am checking w/brother Dick for his input.

Way back when my Grandma Mary Hommel Warner was young (when her mother was married to Moses Babb & they lived west of the Black River, Grandma Mary rowed people across the river when the bridge went out, but that would have been earlier, as my aunts were born in 1880's & Dad & brother were born in 1890's.  Norma Telford

 

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The bridge construction picture above is definitely the old black river bridge on county road "G".  It was torn down when The bridge that exists now was built on the Same site. A temporary wooden bridge was Built about 75 yards upstream from it to be Used while the new one was being built. There were no other bridges in the greenwood area except the old railroad Bridge and the picture of the bridge being built definitely isn't a railroad bridge.  Dick Warner.

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