The First Bridge in Pacific County Traditional Cache
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The First Bridge in Pacific County
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The Bridges of Pacific County, The First Bridge in Pacific County
This bridge is the first one in the Pacific County series of bridges encountered from the east along Highway 6. If you have been following the story of Little Ella crossing the bridges of Lewis County on a train in 1898, you will also know that this is the first bridge that she crossed while falling asleep after hearing the story of the Golden Spike.
This bridge is the third bridge in the series to span the meandering Rock Creek. It is located at milemarker #27, within a mile of Pluvius, an early railroad crew camp. The camp name was bestowed by E. H. McHenry, chief engineer of the Northern Pacific Railroad, for Jupiter Pluvius. The Romans used the name "Jupiter Pluvius" for Jupiter as god of rain, wind and dark storm clouds. A railroad survey and construction crew camp was established near this summit in 1892 by the Yakima and Pacific Coast branch of the Northern Pacific Railroad. It rained incessantly during construction. When the camp moved toward South Bend, so did the population. Today, the sharp turn on Highway 6 is still called Pluvius Hill.
Because railroads were so important in the development of settlements, farms, and industry, they were immortalized in folklore and song. I thought it would be fun to insert song verses at certain Pacific County bridges and have you match them up with a title.
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Well, they give him his orders at Monroe, Virginia
Sayin', "Steve you're way behind time
This is not Thirty-Eight, this is _________________
You must put her into Spencer on time"
Then he turned and said to his black greasy fireman
"Shovel in a little more coal
And when we cross that white oak mountain
Watch _______________ roll"
But it's a mighty rough road from Lynchburg to Danville
In a line on a three mile grade
It was on that grade that he lost his airbrakes
See what a jump he made
He was going down the grade makin' ninety miles an hour
His whistle broke into a scream
He was found in the wreck, with his hand on the throttle
A-scalded to death by the steam
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The Willapa Hills Trail will eventually stretch 56.2 miles between Chehalis and South Bend, rambling through pastoral valleys to the tidewaters of Willapa Bay. Currently only a few small sections of this rail-trail are paved or graveled. The rest of the trail is available on a "use-at-your-own-risk" basis. Current projections are for work on the trail to begin during or after 2015. Presently, for those that want to push the envelope, 32 bridges may be found along the way. We decided to push the envelope and find ways to bring you to each of them.
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