Today is Kanoa’s birthday, so I have to wish him a happy birthday!
Happy birthday Kanoa!
I hope your day is spent with as much toys and playtime as you can handle!
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This post concludes the pictures I took on my little road trip that began in Nevada and ends in rural Madison County. Mostly with the Hogback Bridge and ends with the North River Stone Schoolhouse.
Here are some interesting facts about the Hogback Bridge and one of the ways that rich people tried to keep working class and poor people from voting in the 19th Century:
The Hogback Bridge was also built by Harvey P. Jones and George K. Foster in 1884 using the Town lattice truss with queenpost overlay. The Hogback spans 98 feet over North River, four miles northwest of Winterset. While most of the covered bridges were named for nearby landowners, Hogback was named for the hogback ridge at the west end of the valley (its convex curve resembling the curve of a hog’s back).
Farmers living near the bridges maintained many of them in order to defray a county poll tax of usually fifty cents. This tax was placed on men over the age of twenty-one and had to be paid before one was allowed to vote. Thus, any able-bodied man who could not afford to pay the poll tax, could grade the roads or paint the bridges to pay off his debt.
-Madison County Tourism website.
Unfortunately rich pricks are still trying to keep working class, poor people, and minorities from voting. They just using different tactics these days.
Here are some pictures:
It was a good little road trip and I’m sure it did me some good to go on it. I hope it did you some good to see my pictures.