All That’s Left: there is one last piece of the Lassiter Mill Bridge left standing in a Raleigh city park. There’s but one wall of the old mill left, while the dam and the spillway across Crabtree Creek are still there.
The bridge was 110 foot long and 15 foot wide, and stood 20 foot tall. It was a steel truss bridge, and it replaced an earlier wooden bridge.Originally spanning the Neuse River north of Raleigh, the bridge was relocated to the Mill site in 1920. Condemned and demolished in 1984, it is thought to have been the last remaining steel truss bridge in Wake County.
They’re just a feature of an Inside-The-Beltline neighborhood and part of a small city park that most people have no idea is even there.As kids, this spot was a swimming hole, and it was a rite of passage to shimmy up to the top of the bridge and dive in the creek below.
