The Marthasville Record (now Warren County Record) publishes a folkish and interesting segment entitled “Do You Remember?” To check your memory bank subtitles are 25 Years Ago, 50 Years Ago and 100 Years Ago. In a 2004 issue appeared an item under the “100 Years Ago” subtitle which caught my attention. It follows:

“A ghost was reported seen on the Charrette bridge west of Marthasville recently. A good number of the young men in Charrette Bottom have not ventured to cross the bridge after dark since that time.”

I passed this location and crossed the bridge 1,000s of times. Charrette Bridge was on what had been Widow St. Franceway’s farm in 1804, and on the road home for me. Widow St. Franceway’s farm and my family Schake farm joined at about the location of Charrette bridge.

Ghost or not, the new modern bridge on State Highway 94 is located just a bit further east than was the older one.