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Newspaper

Carmi Times

Location

Carmi, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Feb 08, 1966

Page

10

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.

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.

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

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