The Iron Bridge on Railroad Avenue (now Maple Avenue). Lorena Hibbard standing on bridge
and her brother Leslie's car beside her.
In 1838 the township board voted to pay $50.00 for building a bridge across the Shiawassee river on the Indian Reservation near the home of John Knaggs, for whom it was later named. This was the first bridge constructed in the township and lasted only a short time. On April 3, 1843 the township board voted to raise $100.00 to build a bridge across the river on the road leading west of Byron below the Byron Hotel. Some time later this was replaced by an iron bridge which cost $1500.00. In 1927 the old iron structure was torn down and replaced with a cement bridge at the cost of $75,000. The cement bridge was built over the south branch in 1921 and the cement bridges replaced the old iron ones over the race and east branches in 1920. Then in 1986, the Maple Avenue bridge was replaced and in 1995 all three of the other ones were replaced and were dedicated in honor or memoriam of several Byron families.
