Tallahatchie River Bridge

It's interesting, the main span itself still looks very sturdy, if only the approaches had been maintained. Not only is the old bridge itself looking spooky, all abandoned in the middle of the stream as it is, but the growth of the now dead weeds over the barricade really looks spooky as well. It looks like something straight out of a Twilight Zone episode. "But Waitress, I swear that old man said he just came across the hwy 15 bridge." "Mister, that old bridge has been washed out for over 50 years now." (Spooky music comes up as camera pans to missing approaches. Do do do do, tweedle-dee !)

It's interesting, the main span itself still looks very sturdy, if only the approaches had been maintained. Not only is the old bridge itself looking spooky, all abandoned in the middle of the stream as it is, but the growth of the now dead weeds over the barricade really looks spooky as well. It looks like something straight out of a Twilight Zone episode. "But Waitress, I swear that old man said he just came across the hwy 15 bridge." "Mister, that old bridge has been washed out for over 50 years now." (Spooky music comes up as camera pans to missing approaches. Do do do do, tweedle-dee !)

...this must be the bridge that Bobbie Gentry was referring to in her 1967 song "Ode'To Billy Joe".

The old bridge across the Tallahatchie River on Union County Mississippi Road 115 is the orgional Mississippi State Hwy 15 Bridge. The Miss Hwy Dept built the present day Hwy 15 before my birth and Im almost forty and the old hwy became property of Union County Supervisors and became a county road. The follows more or less and old indian trail that led from Ripley Mississippi to Pontotoc Mississippi. The Indians that lived along the west bank of the Tallahatchie were known as Albanio Indians and the town of New Albany took its name from the indians and currupted the spelling into Albany. As a child i waded the Tallahatchie with my older brothers underneath this bridge and up until recently the road and bridge were in use but at present the road is closed at the bridge and the north end of the bridge is destroyed. The Hwy 15 bridge is less than a half mile from the old bridge and is in view from this bridge. The contract is underway to replace the Hwy 15 bridge within view again with a four lane state hwy and I wonder if the new concrete bridge that took the place of this old iron bridge will fall by the wayside just like the old iron bridge it replaced. I can make pics of other Union County Mississippi bridges if anyone is interested in one.