In 1889, the English Dam above Milton went out, sending a small wall of water, logs, and what-have-you, down the Middle Yuba River at the confluence with Oregon Creek, and it too running full, backed up with water so high that it lifted and floated the 100-foot-long bridge, which drifted downstream and lodged on the high bank in the campground. By the way, this was a toll road until about 1892, including the covered bridge, and owned by the Waymans, who had ranch property further up country. Being practical men, hard workers, jacks-of-all-trades, they raised the bridge, placed log rollers, then, with horses for power and winch using cables, slowly rolled the bridge up the slope on a false framework and put her back on the original foundation.

When this was done the Waymans realized they had the bridge end-for-end, but as it was, it made no difference.

- Frank Meggers

The Oregon Creek precipice is a perpendicular cliff, one quarter mile from town on the Pike City Road. Because of its danger, the county now keeps it fenced. In the good old days, it was used as a place for the disposal of useless or dead animals. Whenever a horse had outlived its usefulness or had died, it was taken to this spot, shot and dumped over the cliff. Coyotes, bears, etc., would usually eat the remains at the bottom of the cliff.

This same precipice has claimed other victims. In the horse and wagon days, one Saturday night, Theodore Wayman, with a wagonload of young people, left Camptonville for Pike City for a dance, and a short ways below the precipice, the team started to run away, tearing down this 35-degree grade. The wagon upset, throwing the occupants over the grade, killing Wayman and bruising the other occupants of the vehicle. The hairnet from one of the girls was found in a treetop the following day.

- Acton M. Cleveland