But Bob:
"Where did you ever get the notion that there was a bridge over the Cooper
River during the "Recent Mis-Understanding?"  HAD to be in Charleston?
You ever been down highway 17 north of Moncks Corner?    That ain't no ferry
you go over the river on.    :-)
And I'd guess that before the Pinopolis Dam created Lake Moultrie there just
might have been others upriver.
JIM MOORE

"Bob. Ross" wrote:

  Sheila,
>
> Where did you ever get the notion that there was a bridge over the Cooper
> River during the "Recent Mis-Understanding?" I thin k not. There was, at
> best, a ferry. I grew up in CHS, and as far as local lore is concerned, the
> first bridge over the Cooper (the one in CHS, not the one down by Hilton
> Head) was built in the mid-1920s and was called the Grace Memorial bridge.
> It was a (two-lane) toll bridge for many years, and was the ONLY way across
> the Cooper by bridge at least up until I graduated from the Citadel in
> 1956. Then I left. Later they built a parallel bridge and made each one
> one-way. Still later they built another up by the paper mill in conjunction
> with I-526.
>
> Was your ancestor a Pinkney? If so, you may be related to the Pinkney (from
> CHS with the Castle and stuff) who lives right behind me here in Beaufort.
>
> Bob
>
> >
> 
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