UTICA PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION, INC.

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   THE UTICA PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION, INC., IS A NON-PROFIT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION THAT IS PROUD OF OUR SMALL TOWN LEGACY.  A TOWN OF APPROXIMATELY 1100 PEOPLE IS COMPRISED OF NEIGHBORHOODS KNOWN AS OLD UTICA, LONGVIEW BEACH, UPPER RIVER, QUARRY BLUFF, HIGH MEADOWS, FOX RUN AND GLENBROOK AND THE NEWEST NEIGHBORHOOD THE WOODS OF OLD SALEM ROAD.

IT IS AN OHIO RIVER VALLEY TOWN WHO'S LEGACY LIES IN JAMES NOBLE WOOD, FOUNDER OF THE TOWN, WHO ESTABLISHED THE FIRST FERRY CROSSING TO KENTUCKY, NEARBY THE LOCATION OF THE NEW  I-265 EAST END BRIDGE IN UTICA.  HE ESTABLISHED THE FIRST "INTERSTATE" TRADE IN THE AREA, CONDUCTING THE MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE, GOODS AND SERVICES BETWEEN THE TWO STATES, FROM HARRODS CREEK, KY., TO UTICA, INDIANA.

   IN THE 1800'S MORE THAN 30,000 BOATS DISEMBARKED AT UTICA TO HEAD OUT THE OLD SALEM ROAD TO THE NEW NORTHWEST TERRITORY.  THIS ROAD HAS OUTLIVED ITS EXPECTATIONS, AS IT IS NOW THE "GATEWAY TO INDIANA",  FIRST EXIT OFF THE "EAST END BRIDGE".

   ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2016, THE NEW, AND MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF THE I-265 LOOP, OPENED TO THE PUBLIC....THE EAST END BRIDGE WAS DEDICATED BY GOV.- ELECT ERIC HOLCOMB AND RENAMED THE LEWIS and CLARK BRIDGE, ALTHOUGH MANY, WILL ALWAYS, LOVINGLY CALL  IT  "THE EAST END BRIDGE".