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E: That was 19....

G: 1916 or '17.

E: I think it was 1916.

G: In August.

E: That's right.

G: That's what washed the bridge away up there, that Taylor Bridge. My
 grandmother and grandfather lived right there where Roy Brown lives
 now, 'cause I know that old house for many, many years.

E: Then what did you Indians do when the bridge was swept away and people
 tried to get across from one side to the other?

G: It swept the bridges away. They built boats after the bridges was
 swept away. They built boats to carry people back and forth across
 the river. Large enough....

E: To take care of their baggage and so forth?

G: They take them across and then take their baggage in a boat separate
 'cause they couldn't be responsible for the baggage because of the
 high water.

E: That's right. When you transferred them, is that the site of the Catawba
 river bed on the Charlotte Highway?

G: No, that was closer, was right up here.

E: Right up here.

G: Down here at the Catawba junction.

E: Then there's two bridges, one that Early Brown operated, that ferry.

G: Yeah, that's the ferry down here where

E: And then the Curreton ferry on down the river?

G: That's the Ashe ferry down there right above the Curreton.

E: Right above.