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The Rough River is in the left foreground, and the Green River goes under the trusses.
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Koueul Woutan posted
This photo was taken by a friend of a friend visiting for Thunder on the Green 2018, if I am remembering correctly. Livermore, Kentucky is located at a point which once boasted "two rivers, two bridges, two counties." Two rivers, the smaller Rough on the left and the famous Green on the right, meet here and create a point of land between them. The Point is part of Ohio County, and requires driving a few miles down gravel roads to access without a boat. Years ago, it was used by the local Boy Scouts as a camping area, then it exchanged hands a couple times and is now privately owned. The land on either side of the rivers is part of McLean County. There is only one bridge now, and that is the US Hwy 431 bridge. Each end terminates in McLean County, but for a short moment, you are in Ohio County while crossing it. Just below the boat ramp to the left of The Point is a small column which used to be part of a rail bridge operated by Louisville and Nashville Railroad. It has a sister column on the right side, but that one has been overgrown by vegetation. The accessible one has been turned into a viewing platform with benches and a park built around it. A plaque about halfway up the stairs to the viewing platform is a marker noting the water level of the 1937 flood. The white silos in the lower right are the Perdue Feed Mill, formerly (and currently by some locals) known as Bungee. Some of you may remember the guy that posts the star from this facility around Christmas. less |
Note that parts of 1st Street and the boat ramp were under water when this image was taken.
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trailsrus
"Has made it into Ripley's Believe It or Not for being the "only bridge in the world that starts in one county, crosses two rivers and a different county, then ends up back in the county in which it started"."
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The Green River is not as brown as the Rough River. I traced the river to confirm that it flows North into the Ohio River.
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| 2021 photo by Mark Yurina, cropped, via BridgeHunter |
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| 2009 photo by James McCray, cropped, via BridgeHunter |
With the leaves gone, we can see more of the deck trusses.
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| 2009 photo by C Hanchey via BridgeHunter |
There is a steep grade up to the navigation span.
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