If you are knowledgeable about the Town of Highland, you may have said to yourself, “I don’t think Louise knows what she is talking about with these photos.” And you would have been correct.
My mother has informed me that these photos actually have to do with blasting the rock in Pond Eddy to use the stone for building Route 97, which was completed in August 1939. The bridge was completed in fall 1941.
Thanks for your comment Alice.
Book 3 “Farewell to Eldred” includes other photos of the “new” bridge that Rowlee Schoonover (from “Echo Hill and Mountain Grove”) also worked on.
Ella Sergeant Leavenworth wrote in her diary that the Leavenworth men went to see the new Hawks Nest Road.
I am hoping “Farewell to Eldred” will be available within two weeks.
Thanks for sharing the pictures Louise!! I am not sure but I believe my Uncle John H. Parker might have worked on that bridge. He was working road construction quite a bit back in those days. I know he was one who worked on the Hawks Nest.