After being closed for many years, C.W. General Store and Service Station was demolished in the early 2020s.
Signs for Hurley Farms on the right and Duff Quarry on the left on OH 117.
John Bickham was a farmer with several acres of land on both sides of the South Fork of the Miami River. To get across the river he had a solid covered bridge built by the Smith Bridge Company. The one hundred and two feet long bridge was built in 1877 using white pine boards that was too pretty to paint, according to John. In later years, the bridge was the only way to reach O’Connor’s Landing. At some point, the Bickham Bridge was painted white. In 2001 the bridge was repaired and painted red. This is only one of two covered bridges remaining in the area. The McColly Bridge, built in 1876, is over the Great Miami River, in Washington Township. The covered bridge at the spillway was washed away during a flooding in the first half of the twentieth century.
Vintage Postcards of Indian Lake, Ohio 