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The custom-designed Parker through truss bridge with five spans, which crosses the Colorado River on business Highway 71, was completed in 1941 and is on the National Register of Historic Places. This photo shows the bridge, still under construction, as it may have looked around the time Junell (Schroeder) Van Horn’s pregnant mother climbed a ladder up to the bridge to get to the hospital.
The area around the Colorado River along Business Highway 71 is a busy place these days as a new bridge is being built next to the old bridge that has stood there for 80 years.
Junell (Schroeder) Van Horn, who now lives in Horseshoe Bay, thinks her family may have been among the first to cross that 80-year-old Highway 71 bridge when she was just a baby.
She said her mother, Hulda, always told…
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