Some things are just fate. After months of looking for the Old Alton Bridge, I finally found it. Located in south Denton along Copper Canyon Road, the steel truss bridge with individual units of wood shaped together has called Denton home since 1884 when the King Bridge Company based out of Cleveland, Ohio built it. It is 14.1 feet wide and 107.9 feet long.
Creak Creak as I took a step further I was transported back to the Grover Cleveland administration where Texas was less than 50 years old and the Civil War ended a mere 19 years earlier. Each step was followed by crows gawking from a distance, placing the body into the climatic scene of a Hitchcock production.
A view of Old Alton Road.
Supposedly there is white bass
Creak Creak People warned me about a dark, mysterious side to the bridge. According to local legend in 1938, Oscar Washburn, a successful African-American known by others as "the Goat man," was taken by members of the Ku Klux Klan to the Old Alton Bridge. Upset by his success and the fact he displayed a sign on the Old Alton Bridge that said, "This way to the Goat man's" Klansmen dragged him from his family, then proceeded to hang the man. Seconds later, however, the men in white robes were horrified to find out that while the rope remained, the body disappeared.
Nerves began to augment, then the climax!
However, I went back across the bridge and this provided comfort.
Goodbye Goat man, RIP.
Source:
http://www.goatmansbridge.com/
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