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From: "Mary Lou" <>
Subject: Re: [KYMCCREA] Yamacaw
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2003 15:46:12 -0500
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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
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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
>
>
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