Black Bridge
Between Ridgewood and Midwood avenues in Monona is a burial mound near the "grand crossing"
of Indian trails crossing the Yahara River near its Lake Monona outlet.
During Prohibition, when the grand crossing became the site of the "Black Bridge" over the
Yahara, the scene of dance halls, a bootlegger and a "house of ill repute." All those things
took place near the bridge on today's Bridge Road.
