A cool Camps Bay Beach image:
Site of Former Drawbridge, Tri-City Beach Rd over Cedar Bayou, Baytown, Texas 0220101130
Image by Patrick Feller
Until a date I’m researching, there was an operating drawbridge at this spot, where Cedar Bayou, as Ash Lake, empties into Galveston Bay. This side is Harris County. The other side is Chambers County.
That hill on the other side isn’t a hill. It’s the Baytown landfill, the city dump.
I crossed this bridge often, waited at times for shrimp boats to pass.
BEACH CITY, TEXAS – History: "Around 1950 the state built FM-2354, a road that ran from Baytown most of the way around the Cedar Point peninsula. This road was authorized by the Colson-Briscoe Act of 1949. A bascule drawbridge, which continued to operate until 1983, crossed Cedar Bayou at the lower end of the bayou.
With the boom economy after World War II, people had time and money for recreation. People from Baytown especially began to take advantage of the drawbridge and built small summer/weekend houses or "fishing camps" along the shoreline of the present Beach City. By the early 1950s, they had nicknamed FM-2354 "Tri-City Beach Road", because the present Baytown resulted from a merger of three smaller towns in 1948." www.beachcitytx.us/History.html
The Baytown Sun, 18 October 1987 › Page 23: "THE BRIDGE . . . Watery panorama The abandoned soot-covered bascule bridge, which used to link Harris and Chambers counties over Cedar Bayou on Tri-City Beach Road, is in a state of limbo as officials from both counties debate who is responsible for its dismantling." www.newspapers.com/newspage/6625228/
Going through some of my old slides, I was surprised to find this:
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