The Old Maxdale Bridge

[tropicdiver]

Went up to Fort Hood, yesterday, to see a few of my customers. On the way back to Austin, I decided to take some smaller farm roads and just head south in the general direction of Austin. I came across a small spot in the road called Maxdale. There was an old closed off bridge there that was built back in 1914.

[CaptainTom]

that looks like a bridge that Bo and Duke would drive the General T across at 100 mph...

[Stephen H]

Very cool find!

[Moses on the Street]

It is a piano bridge. There are only a few viable ones left.

[amadjuster]

Did Billy Joe McAllister jump off that bridge?

[xtinah]

actually i live right by there been there a couple times...its haunted..havent gone at night...to scared to go by myself...but my friend has gone and she has seen a man hanging from the bridge..and me n my friends went during the day and a black truck tried to run us off the road, which i just read happens alot that supposedly a man commited suicide by driving off the side of the bridge where the cemetary is at...and lso the cemetary is haunted that on a full moon that either i think its a witch or just the graves light up...oh and on the bridge the hanging man is a man who hung himself cuz he couldnt save his girlfriend and also a school bus crashed off the bridge and a friend tried it but u cant do it anymore cuz they blocked the bridge u can only walk on it..but if u use to drive up on it put baby powder on your hood n put ur car in nutral...lil handprints show up and the car moves off the bridge...its freaky...but ima go at night one day...lol n ima take pics...

[houtex01]

Great discovery Bob...although from what Christina reported, sounds a little spooky...like #3 and #4...kinda neat to stare at #4 and imagine some of history of this bridge and it's spookiness...did a search on internet and discovered ghost lore pertaining to this bridge and adjacent cementary similiar to what Christina reported...

Ron

[Peacock]

So off of what road is this bridge off of? Any one have a grid coordinate, LOL!

[rjf101]

I went up there last night with my friend and another guy, and although we had heard about all this stuff like a man hanging over the bridge, crying baby sounds in the graveyard, etc., all we saw were some little orbs that only appeared in the pictures my friend took. And it could have just been dust or something. We didn't even see the ghost truck, although last time they went they did hear what sounded like a 1930's pickup going real fast down the road (I wasn't there). We also heard about an outhouse that was supposed to have the ghost of a woman in it, but someone tore it down and now just the foundation is left.

[photosteve]

Great bridge to shoot. The urban legends have it again. "but if u use to drive up on it put baby powder on your hood n put ur car in nutral...lil handprints show up and the car moves off the bridge." this also happens in SA at a rail road crossing.


Steve

[skymstr02]

Back in the early 70's, I've driven across that bridge many times. My friends uncle owned the property on the south side of the bridge, and we fished the sand bars on the Lampasas River that flows under the bridge. The road base on the bridge was 2 X 4's on edge side by side for the length of the bridge.
The bridge is located at 30.95.20N 97.39.45W.

[andyz]

Originally Posted by Peacock

So off of what road is this bridge off of? Any one have a grid coordinate, LOL!

From Heights, 190 West
L on 195
R on 2670 to Maxdale, 777 is on your left
The bridge is down a few miles and on the left.

When the road bends left and you cross a new bridge - you've gone to far.

You can't drive over this one any longer. But it is fun to walk and browse.

[lfmerrell]

This old bridge stuff built in 1914 gets personal, it is twenty years older than me and appears in better physical shape. It is even better looking.

Old Bridges compel me to get out the camera and visit.
My most recent two are:
Goatman's Bridge, AKA Old Alton Bridge, off Swisher Road west of I-35E Denton: Home approx 33° 7'45.43"N, 97° 6'14.04"W

and

Regency Suspension Bridge west of Goldthwaite. I've made two drives across this bridge. It does creak.
approx: 31°24'37.59"N, 98°50'46.17"W
The Regency Suspension Bridge

[andyz]

Well, my story is that contrary to the ghost stories about the Maxdale bridge it is used annually by both Santa and the Easter bunny. For some reason, many hundreds of years ago they couldn't cross the Lampasas River any other way. And in order to reach the other side to "get there" and return home this bridge was needed. It was built out of GPS homing steele so they can each use it to cross, and for guidance. :)