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To Buddy's left the Eel River runs north. Photo taken looking east.
Eikenberry Bridge, also known as Bridge 1–19, Lost Bridge, and Miami County Bridge #28, is a historic Pratt Through Truss bridge located in Richland Township, Miami County, Indiana. It was built about 1920 by the Rochester Bridge Company and spans the Eel River. It is a two-span metal truss bridge with an overall length of 227 feet.

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Between Denver & Chili, Indiana

The Eel River is a 94-mile-long tributary of the Wabash River in northern Indiana.
Via the Wabash and Ohio rivers, its waters flow to the Mississippi River and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico.

The river was called Kineepikwameekwa Siipiiwi - "river of the snake fish" by the Miami people, who inhabited the area at the time of European contact, the English rendered it as Ke-na-po-co-mo-co. It is the northern of the two rivers named Eel River within Indiana.

Originating as an "ice-marginal channel" at the edge of the retreating Saginaw Lobe of the Wisconsin Glacier, the Eel River was later buried by the glacier's advancing Erie Lobe. As the Erie Lobe retreated, the Eel formed a single stream with what is now upper Cedar Creek in DeKalb and Allen counties. The ancestral Eel River was also fed by glacial meltwater surging under the ice from the southeast through a "tunnel valley" known today as Cedar Creek Canyon. Blockage of the Eel's channel by outwash from the canyon and a decline in the volume of meltwater forced the upper Eel to change course into the canyon, creating today's Cedar Creek. This is a classic example of stream piracy that shifted almost 175,000 acres of land from the Eel-Wabash watershed to that of the St. Joseph-Maumee.

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Stone Fence enclosed the Main Old Home. Old Barn sits to the left. Small wooden lot to the right. Photo taken looking East.

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