Bentley Road before the interstate
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Here's a Bluffton photo taken by an unknown local photographer. The Icon thinks this looks like Bentley Road. We dropped the question on Charles Hilty of Reston, Va. Here's his take on the photo:
This IS Bentley Road looking south to what would become the split interchange that was part of the first, two lane only Bluffton bypass.
The house at the right, unoccupied by then, stood at spot where Beaver Street came out to the Bentley Road. It was vacant then, already sold to the state for the highway project.
In the late 1940s, when they were my paper route customers, it was the home of the recently married Al and Millie Ingalls. I believe that they lived there probably in 1948.
It is the Deppler farm on the hillcrest beyond the railroad and future highway route ,but I don’t remember the larger house directly across the Bentley from the farm.
Perhaps it was taken down as part of building the overpass exit ramp up from the Dixie Highway lanes US 25 bypass lanes up from Lima.
Other comments by Icon viewers are welcome.
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