Moore's Crossing LbNA #74399
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Add Location| Owner: | Silver Eagle
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| Plant date: | Feb 28, 2020 |
| Location: | Richard Moya Park |
| City: | Austin |
| County: | Travis |
| State: | Texas |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | PI Joe |
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| Last found: | Jul 1, 2020 |
| Status: | F |
| Last edited: | Mar 2, 2020 |
Terrain Difficulty: Easy (flat, 0.5 mile RT)
Status: alive
Moore's Crossing is a rural community used as a low water crossing of Onion Creek as early as the 1840s. It got its name in the early 1900s when John B. Moore built a store in the area. In 1915, three of six spans from the 1884 iron Congress Ave Bridge, which had been put into storage in 1910, were used to construct a bridge at Moore's Crossing (formerly Onion Creek Bridge), but it was washed away by a spring flood that year. The current bridge, built by the Austin Bridge Company in 1922, is made of concrete piers and the remaining three spans from the Congress Ave Bridge. In 1980, a four-lane concrete beam bridge with a different alignment to FM 973 was built and the county turned the bridge at Moore's Crossing into a pedestrian bridge. You can cross this historic bridge while looking for this box in Richard Moya Park.
Directions:
From US 183 go southeast on Burleson Rd for 1.7 miles, going past main entrance to Richard Moya Park, then right on Moores Bridge Rd into south side of the Park, and park in lot straight ahead.
Clues:
Walk southeast on sidewalk up to bridge and across it to far side. Go to right side where metal support beam connects with bridge. LB is within attachment plate behind small rocks. Be sure to read the nearby historic marker about the bridge.
Hike length: 0.5 miles
Status: alive
Moore's Crossing is a rural community used as a low water crossing of Onion Creek as early as the 1840s. It got its name in the early 1900s when John B. Moore built a store in the area. In 1915, three of six spans from the 1884 iron Congress Ave Bridge, which had been put into storage in 1910, were used to construct a bridge at Moore's Crossing (formerly Onion Creek Bridge), but it was washed away by a spring flood that year. The current bridge, built by the Austin Bridge Company in 1922, is made of concrete piers and the remaining three spans from the Congress Ave Bridge. In 1980, a four-lane concrete beam bridge with a different alignment to FM 973 was built and the county turned the bridge at Moore's Crossing into a pedestrian bridge. You can cross this historic bridge while looking for this box in Richard Moya Park.
Directions:
From US 183 go southeast on Burleson Rd for 1.7 miles, going past main entrance to Richard Moya Park, then right on Moores Bridge Rd into south side of the Park, and park in lot straight ahead.
Clues:
Walk southeast on sidewalk up to bridge and across it to far side. Go to right side where metal support beam connects with bridge. LB is within attachment plate behind small rocks. Be sure to read the nearby historic marker about the bridge.
Hike length: 0.5 miles