{"id":14130,"date":"2021-10-10T09:07:48","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=14130"},"modified":"2021-10-10T09:07:48","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T14:07:48","slug":"water-under-the-ebay-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/10\/water-under-the-ebay-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Under the Ebay Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/long-creek-bridge-1024x617.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/long-creek-bridge-1024x617.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/long-creek-bridge-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/long-creek-bridge-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/long-creek-bridge.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I jumped the gun recently in making an <a href=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/04\/ebay-discoveries-and-setting-up-searches\/\">Ebay purchase<\/a>. I read the description of the item a little too quickly and fixated on &#8220;north of Carthage, Illinois&#8221; and &#8220;Long Creek Bridge.&#8221; I grew up north of Long Creek and have crossed it many times. In fact, it ran along what we called the &#8220;bottom&#8221; where my father pastured cattle. I saw the postcard and the bridge and purchased it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I jumped the gun just a little bit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I looked more closely, there were clues this was not the bridge in which I had an interest:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The description said &#8220;Northeast of Carthage.&#8221; The bridge I was thinking of was directly north of Carthage. <\/li><li>While the picture was taken 60 years before my first memories, the approach on the left hand side did not match my recollection at all. <\/li><li>The horse and wagon on the left side of the bridge gave an idea of how tall the bridge is. The bridge I remember was taller than this one&#8211;quite a bit taller. <\/li><li>The geography does not look right. The creek bed and surrounding area is too flat. The bridge I&#8217;m thinking of was essentially at the bottom of a steeper hill than what is shown in the photograph.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A reminder about assumptions as well here. For some reason I thought the picture was taken looking west. There&#8217;s nothing in the photograph to support that assumption either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My best approach is to find a map as close to the 1910 era as possible and see if I can determine what other bridges over Long Creek were &#8220;northeast of Carthage.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s still a neat postcard and I&#8217;m glad I purchased it. It was a relatively inexpensive reminder of a few things. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I jumped the gun recently in making an Ebay purchase. I read the description of the item a little too quickly and fixated on &#8220;north of Carthage, Illinois&#8221; and &#8220;Long Creek Bridge.&#8221; I grew up north of Long Creek and have crossed it many times. In fact, it ran along what we called the &#8220;bottom&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153978,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}