Highland Park's Ghost Town

In the 100-year-old image of the Heth's Run Bridge you can see some buildings on the far-side of the biurdge. Those structures are long gone. They may have lasted until the 1930s and the building of the Highland PArk Bridge. Te approaches needed every bit of footprint at the base of the hill to squeeze in the approach ramps.

If you walk the woods above Butler Street east of One Wild Place (formerly Hill Road) you will notice utility lines and poles through the trees along the path of a former road through there. Can it be that this utiltiy line was last used 75 years ago, predating the Highland Park Bridge?

There are also sewers located in the mids of the woods. This old road is now used for a new trail that loops up the PArk Road near Carnegie Lake...another link in a network of trails and paths that could span the East End to Frick Park.