Tag: Traders Point Indiana
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On the Dandy Trail in Indianapolis: Abandoned bridge in what is now Eagle Creek Park
Along what was the Dandy Trail in what is now Eagle Creek Park in Indianapolis, you will find an abandoned bridge. It’s hard to reach on foot. Jayson Rigsby recently contacted me to say he made photographs of it on a recent kayaking trip along Eagle Creek. The Dandy Trail was a 1920s pleasure-drive loop…
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Whatever happened to Traders Point, Indiana?
It’s been gone for a half century, but there used to be a village right here on the Lafayette Road in what is now northwest Indianapolis. All that’s left is an abandoned farm co-op building and a county maintenance garage. Yet if you’ve ever spent any time here — encountering the two churches, the giant shopping center,…
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Co-op Yashica-D Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros 2016
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Captured: On the water
Eagle Creek Reservoir may be one of Indianapolis’s premier recreation destinations, but it was built as a flood-control project. Big Eagle Creek kept overflowing its banks. More than once it flooded the little town of Traders Point, which used to nestle nearby where Lafayette Road (then US 52) intersected the creek. The flood control project…
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Demolished
It’s gone. The only vestiges of the old bridge are the places where its arches once touched down. Rebar sticks out like coarse, unruly hair. Most of the bridge’s pieces must have been carted away, but some piles of concrete chunks remain. This photo looks up at the south approach. A staggering amount of rebar…
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Half gone
The old bridge on Lafayette Road (old US 52) is now half gone. Bridge bits are piling up everywhere! Check out all that twisted rebar. I wish so many bridge bits didn’t have to end up in Eagle Creek. Calling my smarts into question, I climbed up an unstable and shifting pile of debris to…
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Deckless
At the end of week 2 of the old bridge’s demolition, half of the deck has been removed.
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Worn out
The bridge was once part of US 52, one of the original 1927 US highways. At first, that highway led only from northwest of tiny Fowler, Indiana to Bluefield, WV. But by the 1950s it stretched from Portal, ND to Charleston, SC, crossing the Mississippi River three times along the way. In the days before…