The Heth's Run Bridge still stands but the Valley is no more. Sometime in the 1930s the City started using the Valley of Heth's Run as a trsh dump. This next picture is taken on the river side of the bridge from the 1915 photo...you can see the railing of the Bridge at the top.
This is years of fill...and the fill goes all the back toward the Highland Park neighborhood at Heth's Park off of Hampton Street.
The stream remains, buried. The manholes for the now sewered stream are some of the deepest I have seen...and they had to be extended as the fill deepened.
In the first half of the last decades creative minds and commmunity advocates promoted a valley restoration concept. Funding has been pursued and some has been awarded; but the project has stalled. Lets keep this vision alive and active.
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