The Notebook on Coldwater Span: Who Keeps the Toll?
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The Notebook on Coldwater Span: Who Keeps the Toll?
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Cold air, moving water, low visibility - for more than a century those four conditions appear again and again in a dry black-and-white notebook left on a frozen covered bridge; how did 112 recorded names survive three days of ice on an open span with no author, no return address, and no explanation? Who carried that record, and why does the answer point to someone alive who kept his dying private?
In this episode, we follow how a utility worker found the notebook, how Patricia Ford traced a ledger of eleven deaths tied to the bridge, and how one local man’s habits overlap with the entries - could a seemingly ordinary resident be the link between the legend and the living?
Person: Laura Snyder
Person: Patricia Ford
Location: Coldwater Span, Pardee
Date: January 9, 2019
Case: Notebook accession number 2019-14
- The notebook contained 112 entries, each naming a dead person and listing cold air, moving water, low visibility, and a person alone.
- The Coldwater Span was built in 1871 by carpenter Stephen Murl and measures 140 feet of covered timber.
- Patricia Ford compiled a ledger of eleven deaths from 1891 to 1967, all recorded as drowning or exposure.
- The word "toll" first appeared in print in a Pardee Clarion letter dated March 2, 1922, signed "W.B." after Robert Teague's death.
- The notebook was kept in a municipal evidence bag for eight months before being archived as accession number 2019-14.
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