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"Tall Trees" Chipola River Water Management Area & The Bellamy Bridge Heritage Trail ~ Marianna, Florida

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"Floodplains" Chipola River Water Management Area & The Bellamy Bridge Heritage Trail ~ Marianna, Florida

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"Red Dirt Trail" Chipola River Water Management Area & The Bellamy Bridge Heritage Trail ~ Marianna, Florida

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Spanish Explorers Chipola River Water Management Area & The Bellamy Bridge Heritage Trail ~ Marianna, Florida

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The earliest recorded use of the Bellamy Bridge vicinity as a
place for crossing the Chipola River dates from the 1686
expedition of Marcos Delgado.

Appointed by the governor of Florida to investigate reports of
French intrusion on the Mississippi River, Delgado led a small
force of Spanish soldiers and Apalachee Indians west from
Mission San Luis at present-day Tallahassee.

Reaching Mission San Luis near Sneads, Delgado turned
slightly to the northwest and crossed what is now eastern
Jackson County to Blue Springs, which the Spanish called
"Calistople Spring." Until the time of the 1686 expedition, they
believed it was the head of the Chipola or Calistoble River.

From Blue Spring, the Spanish expedition turned north around
the head of Baltzell Spring and across the site of today's
Marianna Municipal Airport before turning back west again.
Encountering no other streams or obstacles, they soon
reached the Chipola River:

...[T]here is a clayey swamp and in its center a stream which has
36 feet of width and a depth of 6 feet and the swamp itself has
half a league of breadth. It is thick and it was necessary to cut
the path.

Delgado's description of the stream he encountered matches
the Bellamy Bridge vicinity very well. Since he would have
encountered a much wider swamp and other streams or even
multiple river channels blocking his way if he had crossed
either to the north or south, the area right around Bellamy
Bridge is the only real geographic match for his crossing point.

The location is supported by the earliest Jackson County land
surveys, which show an old trail leading northwest from Blue
Springs, around the head of Baltzell Spring and to the Chipola
River at today's Bellamy Bridge site. Since the trail was there
before the first American settlers moved into the area, it likely
was the one followed by Marcos Delgado.

After crossing the Chipola, the explorers moved on to the vicinity
of Waddell's Mill Pond in western Jackson County where they
first saw buffalo (American bison). Delgado eventually reached
the towns of the Upper Creek Indians around today's city of
Montgomery, Alabama, but never made it to the Mississippi.

His crossing of the Chipola River in the vicinity has led to
Bellamy Bridge being included on the new Jackson County
Spanish Heritage Trail, a driving tour of historic Spanish
colonial sites.

"Bellamy Ghost Bridge" Chipola River Water Management Area & The Bellamy Bridge Heritage Trail ~ Marianna, Florida

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The historic Bellamy Bridge was built in 1851. It was swept away by a flood, built again in 1874, then re-built in 1914. It is the second oldest steel-framed bridge in Florida. It is one of the ten oldest bridges in the state.The Bellamy Bridge remained in use until 1963 when it was declared obsolete and replaced by a concrete bridge by which County Road 162 crosses the Chipola River today.