Broadway Bridge and Kinyon Groceries - Updated with Earl Cuyler's comments

Comment from Earl Cuyler - Here's a tidbit if you look at the town bridge in this picture you'll notice no guardrail around it.  I'm sure you will remember that rail the city put it up so ( Wylon "Wimpy" Moore) could not ride his motorcycle over it anymore.  His dad was John Moore.  Wimpy told me this story.

Bridge Washed Out during the 1908 Flood

Copy of the picture sent to me by Bill Gough a grandson of Ethel Corbin.  Picture is of a crowd gathered on the south side of Broadway looking at the bridge that washed out during flooding on March 8, 1908.

Mill Rrace Dam and Michigan Central Railroad Bridge

The dam is located on the Coldwater River to keep the water level going into the mill race to the right of the picture high enough to power the floor mill. The bridge in the background is for the Michigan Central Railroad.

Passenger Train going over Coldwater River

The picture on this postcard is of a Michigan Central Passenger Train crossing the Coldwater River in the background. The dam on the left is on the Coldwater River with the waterway on the right flowing into the mill race for the Flour Mill. The postcard picture was postmarked 1916

.The map is a cropped section of a map of Union City found on page 18 & 19 in the "Standard Atlas of Branch County, Michigan; compiled and published by George A. Ogle & Co., Chicago, 1915".

Note - The top of the arrow indicates from where the picture of the train was taken (from the mill race bank looking south towards the railroad bridge that crosses the Coldwater River.

Park Street Bridge Looking West

Park Street Bridge Looking East

Park Street Bridge with School in the background

The picture on this postcard is looking north towards the St. Joseph River on Park Street. In the background is the Union City School.

The Old Bridge

The picture of the Park Street Bridge from about 1910.

Main Stree Bridge

The Main Street bridge, looking south.

Swing Bridge

A temporary walking bridge built over the St Joseph River after the flood of 1908 washed out the Broadway Street bridge.  The right side of the picture shows construction of a new bridge is underway.

Kids playing near the Broadway Bridge that washed out in the 1908 flood

Picture provided by Duane Hooker....