Photos
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Singer Bobbie Gentry walking across the bridge Photo from Life Magazine November, 1967 |
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Singer Bobbie Gentry posing on bridge Photo from Life Magazine November, 1967 |
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Color shot of the bridge unknown |
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Through truss bridge over Tallahatchie river on old Roebuck road
- Location
- Leflore County, Mississippi
- Status
- Demolished 1987
- Design
- Through truss with Pony truss spans
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.44373, -90.23320 (decimal degrees)
33°26'37" N, 90°13'60" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/757200/3703904 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 37512 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Comments
That bridge on Roebuck Rd. crosses the Yazoo River. The Tallahatchie river ends in Greenwood and the two rivers merge to form the Yazoo. The bridge has to be north of Greenwood.
Actually, it's this one......
E. Wise... it is not still there, it is gone. Refer to the map at the top of this page, the red pin is in the exact location the bridge used to be. The old road leading up to it is still there, but dead ends at the river now.
I read that the bridge is still there, but no longer in use. Where is the exact location of the old bridge?
This is the only place I have been able to find the location of the Tallahatchie Bridge. Thank you. (Researching it for a novel).
I have just looked it up on Google Earth. The location of the bridge and the road leading to it from either side appears to be redacted. I wonder why?
The bridge does still exist. It is no longer in use. A new bridge spanning the river was built and opened sometime in the late 80s.
The Till murder happened north of Greenwood near Money, MS. This bridge is south of Greenwood. The locations are about 20 miles apart.
Was this bridge located anywhere near Money Mississippi
where in 1955 a Black youth named Emmett Till whistled
at 21 year old Carolyn Bryant who was white at Bryant's
grocery.Carolyn's husband Roy owned the store and she was
running it while Roy was away.Roy found out later and
he and JW Milam murdered Emmett a few days later and
dumped his body in the Tallahatchie river.
Was this bridge located anywhere near Money Mississippi
where in 1955 a Black youth named Emmett Till whistled
at 21 year old Carolyn Bryant who was white at Bryant's
grocery.Carolyn's husband Roy owned the store and she was
running it while Roy was away.Roy found out later and
he and JW Milam murdered Emmett a few days later and
dumped his body in the Tallahatchie river.
I've gleaned some more information. There is a new UCEB a couple hundred feet from where this bridge was located, on a new alignment of Roebuck road. The stretch of old Roebuck road which led to the old bridge still exists. The bridge was demolished in 1987, and there is a plaque on the new UCEB stating that the bridge is the replcaement for the "Ode To Billie Joe" bridge.
Well, what bridge website would be complete without one of the most famous bridges in music history. I have alot of incomplete inforamtion on this bridge, some reports say it "collapsed" in 1972, some say it was a deck collapse, and was fixed, being used in the 1976 movie. I have not found information as to it's exact location, although we do know it no longer exists. Any more inforamtion that could be gleaned on this bridge would be interesting.