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ROCK POINT
Rogue River
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T36S-R5W-Sec19
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1893 - 1920
July 21, 1893: "The Rock Point bridge is nearly completed." (The Medford Mail)
July 28, 1893: "The Rock Point bridge is completed and is very neat in appearance. Mr. Clements, the carpenter, has moved back to Prospect." (Medford Mail Tribune)
December 10, 1897: "Mr. Clements, the bridge builder, has been repairing the bridge across Rogue river at Rock Point during the past week and travel by horse or wagon was thereby suspended." (The Medford Mail)
January 21, 1898: "The following bill was allowed at the January meeting of the County Commissioners court: John Clements, 9 days' work on bridge and for nails for Rock Point bridge .....$19.50." (The Medford Mail)
January 16, 1903: "County commissioner Thos. Riley stopped in Medford Friday and Saturday while on his way home from the meetings of the county court. Mr. Riley takes a great interest in the bridges of the county and recently made a personal inspection of the one at Rock Point. Speaking of the needed repairs on that structure he says that heavier rods would be put in; the bridge straightened and new flooring put down. The lumber has been ordered for some time but has been hard to get. In order to go ahead with the work, it was necessary to send one order out of the county for lumber, but the bulk of it will come from Jackson county mills. The heavier rods are considered necessary to stand the strain as there is almost as much travel over that bridge as any one in the county. Mr. Riley concedes that the bridge is too valuable to be abandoned and that as soon as it is repaired as ordered will be as good, if not better, than any other wooden bridge in the county." (The Medford Mail)
April 10, 1903: "Harry Boussom can have more narrow escapes from serious injury than almost anyone. In following his occupation as carpenter he has had various accidents, more or less severe, but he had about the closest call of his life one day last week. He is now employed on the Rock Point bridge, which is being repaired by the county, and was one day working underneath by himself, when a fellow workman let a two-inch plank fall from the top of the structure, twenty-five feet above. Harry saw the plank coming just in time to duck--but he didn't duck quite far enough. The plank grazed the back of his head, knocking him senseless. He fell on a sloping rock on the brink of the river and lay within a few inches of the stream, which at this point is very swift and deep, and lay there for over an hour unconscious, until his fellow workman, becoming alarmed at his absence, instituted a search and rescued him from his perilous position. If he had come to his senses while lying there a single movement might have sent him into the river, where he would have certainly drowned." (The Medford Mail)
September 21, 1909: "Charles Champlin, while en route to Gold Hill Saturday night in his automobile, collided with the south approach of the Rock Point bridge, necessitating the assistance of a livery team to convey the machine and himself back home." (Medford Mail Tribune)
November 29, 1916: "There was a slight accident on the Rock Point bridge on the 20th, when Mrs. I.H. Porter and daughter, Marguerite, in a buggy, collided with Geo. Hammersley, driving an auto. The accident was not the fault of either party, but was caused by the sun on the blinding glare of the sun on the windshield and the darkness of the bridge blinding Mr. Hammersley." (Grants Pass Daily Courier)
December 19, 1919: "The new bridge at Rock Point is practically complete, excepting the fills for the approaches and it is a beautiful structure." (Roseburg Review)
February 28, 1920: "It is reported that the old bridge at Rock Point will be torn down shortly." (Medford Mail Tribune)
May 18, 1920: The following is from a schedule of expenditures of Jackson county, Oregon together with a list of the claimants and articles of service for which the claim is made and which was passed upon by the County Court of Jackson County during the month of March, 1920: Parker and Banfield, moving Rock Point bridge ..... $50.00." (Medford Mail Tribune)