Three old truss bridges in and around Yorktown

Read time: 9 min.

The road less traveled is almost always worth venturing down, and here are some examples if you don’t believe me: although most everyone who’s driven through Yorktown over the past eighteen years is familiar with the steel truss bridge at Morrow’s Meadow, two more metal crossings -both older and more impressive- sit less than a mile off Highway 32 in Mt. Pleasant Township.

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The Koontz flowing well south of Yorktown

Read time: 4 min.

I’ve gotten pretty good at finding and identifying flowing wells. After all, identifying them’s easy, so long as you can see the water gushing up from underground! Finding them can be more of a challenge when they’re hidden, but sometimes it’s simple: I had no idea that what I call the Koontz well existed until a friend showed me a picture on his phone and asked, “is this one?” Jackpot! It was, and it sits just south of Yorktown.

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