New Bridge Celebration Edition Opens August 8 1916
White County Democrat recounts the long history of Carmi’s Little Wabash bridge from early fords to the 1841 toll structure and the transition to a modern iron bridge. It traces builders, court actions, key figures, and local memory of the old wooden span and Moodys warehouse conventions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White County
J. Robert Smith
Carmi
Skillet Fork
Shoals Water Mill Shoals
Board of Commissioners
Carmi Bridge Co
Samuel D. Ready
Samuel Hughes
Benjamin Latimer
John Story
SDPD
Read
Said Bridge Co
Bridge Company
Benjamin M. St. John
St. John
Mr. St
Samuel DY
Samuel Slocum
Sons of Temperance Lodge
Cou
Sueh
William Smith
W.C. Smith
Gotter
Main Street
John Ganley
Fannie Williams
Iraq
William
Tarrison
Whi
T. S. Barnes
F. W. Davis
Thomas Randolph
M. A. Miller
G. W. Webb
James Finch
Alexander Williams
John Land
IF. J. Foster
Carmi Township
Leonard Pyle
William M. Funkhouser
Hawthorne Township
Hawthorne
Carmi Bridge
Carmi Weekly Courier
Massillon
Little Wabash Bridge
Grindstone Creek
Jay Hardy
Overton & Smith
Bedford
Ind
Hale
Boyer
Tom Hobbs
Cap Ross Graham
Tom Ary
Hull Gilleson
Gilleson
Middle Pier
The
Democrat
R. S
Bairlot
Rudy
Thomas K
Charles J. F. Wilson
Wilson Bros
Dwight L. Moody
Moody
St John Family Key in Carmi Bridge Legacy
In Carmi history the St John family, six generations of bridge engineers, shaped spans across the Little Wabash River. Benjamin Anthony St John, a longtime jeweler, is the latest notable member. his lineage includes planners of the first Carmi covered bridge built 1838 to 1840, with tolls and later toll-free status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carmi
St. John
Little Wabash River
Men of Destiny
Benjamin Anthony St. John
Katherine
Otis DI
Matthias St. John
Sension
Sention
America
Dorchester
Massachusetts
England
B. A. St. John
Benjamin Meade St. John
Aaron
John
David
Stephen St. John
Oil
Samuel St. John
New Canaan
Connecticut
Hartford
Orline St. John Alexander
Texas Independence
Yale University
New Haven
United States
Little Wabash
William St. John
B.A. St. John
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mary McCarty
Mary St. John Dougherty
el Paso
Texas
Benjamin ‘True Strong
Povernment
Joseph Matthias St. John
Chicago
Joseph Matthias
Archer
New York City
Michael
Robert
John St. John
Puerto Rico
Evansville Museum
Dorothy St. John Cooke
Alexandria
Virginia
Washington, D. C
Dil
Paul Cooke
William A. St. John
Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
Robert St. John
Chase Park Plaza
St. Louis
Missouri
Otis
Katherine St. John
Dill
Benjamin M. St. John
Also Mentioned on This Page
Runi, Ilinoi
Lincoln
Stewart
Woods Pasture
Josiah Stewart
Co. S. Conger
Woods
Robert Wilson
James Fuckney
Wilson & Fackner
Stephen S. Hughes
Hughes
Craw
Weigant
Lemuel
David Perren
J. H. Reeves
Ahart S. Staley
William L. Garrison
Richard S. Graham
City OF
Illinois
Frank C. Sibley
Geo. H. Brown Co
M. Sherertz
Bridge City
Don Cochran
R. R. Benson
R. A. Mailer
John J
John J. O'Heron
Marsh RA
Marsh
Dee
Supt
Immittee County
S. J. Higginson
J. ON. Turner
Frank Alashier
RON & CO
T. Frank Quinty Kago
Inbow Arch
Jes Moines
Lowa Digner
Joshua Handley
Samuel T. Thompson
Hay
Samuel Ready
Edward Buckner
David Land
Len S. Ross
Ross
John Mills
R. F. Stewart
L. D. Bennett
Fairfield
Tinois
Orlando Burrell
James H. Fraser
Ferry
Fraser Bridge
Wabash
Michael Anderson
Burrel
Anderson
George Chapman
Homer Whiting
Thorn Radcliff
Homer
E. L. Stewart
DR. Frank
Sibley
K. P. Staiger
Simpson Lumber Co
Katherine St. John Dill
Anna St. John Dill
New
Carmi Rainbow Arch Bridge