Tyler-Goodwyn Bridge
Description
Site of the 1957 murder of Willie Edwards.Named for Confederate Officer and Alabama politician Robert Goodwyn and his wife Pricilla Tyler who was the granddaughter of President John Tyler.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Warren through truss bridge over Alabama River on AL 143
- Location
- Montgomery County, Alabama, and Elmore County, Alabama
- Status
- Removed but not replaced
- History
- Built in the 1920s; Removed 1980
- Design
- 1 255' Warren through truss swing
2 104' Warren through trusses - Dimensions
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Deck width: 18.0 ft.
- Also called
- Roy Bridge (Old Name)
Tyler-Goodwin Bridge (Alternate spelling) - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.41146, -86.34157 (decimal degrees)
32°24'41" N, 86°20'30" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/561913/3586235 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Montgomery North
- Inventory number
- BH 72088 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 2, 2020: New photos from Melissa Brand-Welch
- November 15, 2019: New photo from Douglas Butler
- November 9, 2019: New photo from Douglas Butler
- July 21, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- January 10, 2018: New photo from Luke
- May 2, 2016: Added by Luke
Sources
- 9 Dec 1971, 54 - Alabama Journal at Newspapers.com
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Luke
- Alabama Department of Archives & History - Image
- United States Congressional Serial Set - Book
- Fighting the Devil in Dixie: How Civil Rights Activists Took on the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama by Wayne Greenhaw - Book
- AARoads - Info
- Wikipedia - Article on Willie Edwards
- Douglas Butler
Comments
The Bridge was named for the Tyler and Goodwiyn Families.
https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/news/archive-president-joh...
From my research it seems that the spelling was with a Y.
It was named for a Albert Taylor Goodwiyn. and his wife Priscilla Tyler who was the granddaughter of U.S. President John Tyler.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Taylor_Goodwyn
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48778498/priscilla-coope...
I have changed the Bridge name here to the “Y” spelling and made the I spelling the alternative. It seems that the spelling error started after the famous murder and when the story became national.
Both spellings have been used, including this Alabama Digital Archives page, the Montgomery Advertiser, AND a United States Congressional Set that uses Goodwin vs Goodwyn
https://digital.archives.alabama.gov/digital/collection/phot...
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2019/04/29/e...
https://books.google.com/books?id=Hio8AQAAMAAJ&q=Montgomery,...
There are also historical texts that are innumerable that used Goodwin vs Goodwyn
Both names deserve to be part of the entry.
Why can't you use the correct spelling for the bridge? The last name is spelled GoodwYn, after Mr. Tyler Goodwyn. You can even see the correct spelling in the old newspaper articles you refer to. There is no "alternate" spelling but there is a misspelling: Goodwin.
Same Date
The photo Luke added is also from 1961
February 25 1961 The Montgomery Advisor
Melissa, Did you happen to see any reference to flooding in the 1950s of this bridge? I was contacted by someone who grew up near this bridge and they think it had another really bad flood in the 1950s, and were looking for confirmation of that.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/al/montgomery/tyler-goodwin/
His name was Robert Taylor Goodwyn. The Tyler-Goodwyn comes from his wife’s maiden name Tyler who was granddaughter of the US President.