Update 2025-07-11: Pictures: Turner Bridge to Cone Bridge Paddle, Suwannee River 2025-07-05.
Ken Sulak sent this in preparation for
Turner Bridge to Cone Bridge Paddle, Suwannee River, 2025-07-05.
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Over to Ken:
Looking back at the history of Turner Bridge, and what bridge artifacts reveal or conceal. Continue reading
Update 2025-04-25: Site of Town of Ellaville and Hillman Bridge, Suwannee River 2025-04-22.
Built in 1925, abandoned in 1983 when an overweight truck damaged it, the historic Hillman Bridge still stands over the Suwannee River.
![[Historic Hillman Bridge, Suwannee River, Ellaville, Florida, Withlacoochee River Confluence]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2018-12-01--hillman-bridge/fbmany.jpg)
Historic Hillman Bridge, Suwannee River, Ellaville, Florida, Withlacoochee River Confluence
It has a storied past, starting with the millionaire Turpentine King, Captain Winder Josephus Hillman (1857-1931), who got his start in Live Oak and High Springs and “opened another camp in Inverness before expanding his operations throughout Central and South Florida before becoming a director of the Consolidated Naval Stores Company of Jacksonville, the largest naval stores trader in the United States.” See below for the source and more quotes.
Hillman Bridge is downstream of the CSX Railroad Bridge and the Withlacoochee River Confluence. Continue reading
![[Turner Bridge, Suwannee River --Ken Sulak 2025-07-01, History and what bridge artifacts reveal or conceal]](https://www.wwals.net/pictures/2025-07-01--turner-bridge-ken-sulak/fbmany.jpg)