The Bridge over Half Moon Creek Traditional Cache

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An eventful eight year run. Thanks to Ohjoy, utox2rox, philgeorge, and Pa of Da2Svedes for doing the Last Call.

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Hidden : 11/16/2006
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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The Bridges of Pacific County, The Bridge Over Half Moon Creek

The Half Moon Creek bridge is located within the town limits of Lebam, a farming and residential community on Highway 6. Settlers first moved to the site in 1879 and called their little community Half Moon Prairie, or Half Moon Creek. When the post office was established May 26, 1890, postmaster Jotham "Joe" Weeks Goodell was asked to supply a shorter name. Goodell considered various alternatives but finally submitted the reversed spelling of his daughter Mabel's name. Lebam is Mabel spelled backwards. Lebam was a prosperous sawmill and farming district town for nearly three decades. Two calamitous fires in the 1910s almost destroyed the town but residents rebuilt both times.


The Willapa Hills Trail will eventually stretch 56.2 miles between Chehalis and South Bend, rambling through pastoral valleys to the tidewaters of Willapa Bay. Currently only a few small sections of this rail-trail are paved or graveled. The rest of the trail is available on a "use-at-your-own-risk" basis. Current projections are for work on the trail to begin during or after 2015. Presently, for those that want to push the envelope, 32 bridges may be found along the way. We decided to make these available in order to give you the option to visit each.

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