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Iron Bridges - Joppa

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Burnet-ish, Tx
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Casey
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Fry
Joppa is a ghost town north of Bertram, and there are 2 bridges in the area. I've driven/ridden through a few times, but never stopped to photograph them, so when my buddy Wes and I rode through Joppa last Friday, I stopped to shoot the one by the church. They were built around 1907.

Note the cedar posts, obviously built using cedars from the area:
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You can't tell from the photo, but the big oak on the left actually grew around the steel column:

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The steel column that the tree grew around was like this one
:
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I may or may not have ridden across the bridge... depends on what the definition of "not" is ;-) Wes would've crossed it, I sure, but he couldn't fit his jugs past the barrier... no, he's not a tranny, he rides a beemer.
 
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