Rebar In Rebar Hole

[gary2400]

I have wondered about that pesky rebar material from the first time I lost several flys in that hole. I have read in the past on this forum that these were left over from the dam construction or that they were placed there deliberately to promote trout habitat. When I was a young man I worked on a lot of huge construction projects and none of these explainations ever made a lot of sense to me from a contractor's point of view. As I mainly love to fish at night I find myself doing other things waiting on the darkness; fishing off of Lilley's dock for relaxation, spending a couple of hours on Crane Creek, or just looking around. I was in the Dewey Short visitor's center on the lake side of the dam and was looking at the pictures of the dam construction and I noticed something that gives me the best explaination of that rebar. During construction from the dam looking downstream there was a concrete bridge across the White River in what looks like the exact spot where the rebar is. My theory is this: The bridge was later removed but the footings were never completely removed, especially the the ones in the "channel". I would also guess that in the 'old days' this was a wagon crossing of the White which later progressed to the bridge being built. Many of our roads today are just improvements of the old wagon roads. My ancestors are from over around the Hercules Glades Wilderness area in east Taney County and the old wagon roads are still there in the wilderness if you look closely. Just a theory....doesn't make it fact. If anybody has some documents, I'd like to hear it or read it...love that history!

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You might look at the pictures at Big Cedar.

There are a lot of old pictures down there in the resturants and shops.

Great topic by the way.

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