Victor Jones Bridge
Original Suspension Bridge
View of Suspension Bridge
Mount Morgan Suspension Bridges
In the 1890's there were six pedestrian suspension bridges (sometimes referred to as swinging bridges) constructed over the Dee River to give pedestrians easy access between the mine and township, especially when the river was flowing.
These suspension bridges were constructed with a wooden decking suspended by two long steel cables reaching across the river from one bank to the other.
The Tipperary Point to Red Hill Suspension Bridge is the last original suspension bridge still standing, one of two left in Mount Morgan.
The second is the Private Victor Stanley Jones Bridge built in 2002 in memory of the nation's first military casualty.
Victor Jones was an assistant paymaster with the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company and in September, 1899 he and a group of other men from Mount Morgan volunteered to go to the South African War. Private Jones was the first Australian to die in Imperial Service in an Australian styled uniform. At the time of his death he was 27 years old.
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