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This is a tiny bridge that despite being a very early surviving example of a concrete arch bridge in Michigan with a 1911 construction date, is otherwise unremarkable structurally. However, it has one unusual detail. The bridge has two inscriptions set into the solid concrete parapets. These inscriptions are written in an unusual script that is very odd among bridges. Bridge inscriptions and plaques usually use a plain print font, not a script. The shallow nature of the inscriptions, perhaps some wear and tear over the decades, and the script style inscriptions combine to make them very difficult to read and nearly impossible to photograph in a way that the text is legible given the somewhat low light conditions HistoricBridges.org encountered here. One inscription appears to list the commissioners, and the other inscription appears to list the builders of the bridge, listed as the "bridge crew" which is also somewhat unusual. Bridges often list engineers, contractors, etc, but listing the "bridge crew" which presumably means the actual names of the workers who built the bridge is very unusual.
This bridge is on a road that leads to Bailey County Park, but it was originally the main road prior to the current alignment of M-35 a short distance west of the bridge.
There is apparently another similar bridge on private property a number of miles south of this bridge over Bailey Creek, coordinates 45.20954, -87.52936.
Above: Aerial view of bridge, September 10, 2020. Click for enlargement. Photo Credit: Doug Heim, Angelcopter, LLC
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