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Sharon Sanders
The Southeast Missourian's resident historian Sharon K. Sanders blogs about interesting pieces of local history pulled from the newspaper's morgue -- the place where our old editions are kept.
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Farmer Heuer moves a bridge

Posted Thursday, June 26, 2014, at 12:00 AM

In 1964, Cape Girardeau County farmer George Heuer stepped forward to accept the offer of a used bridge, owned by the Cape Special Road District. The only condition was that Heuer would have to move the steel span from where it had rested for 50 years over Cape LaCroix Creek.

An anonymous photographer caught the move in June of that year.

Because of space limitations, I couldn't duplicate the arrangement of the photos as they originally appeared in the Missourian. But I've used the same directional indicators under the pictures that are in the story.

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  • I have known George and family for a long, long time. Hanover church life--time members, like my Krueger ancestors also life---time members. He and I were an usher "team" for several year c. late 1950's and 1960's. I remember when this bridge was moved but was out of town, later regretted not being able to photograph this event.

    -- Posted by Elroy on Thu, Jun 26, 2014, at 11:04 AM

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