After visiting the historic shopping district in Olmsted Falls, we headed just a couple blocks down the road to the covered bridge that crosses Plum Creek. The Charles Harding Memorial Bridge is of recent construction (1998) and honors a local war hero who died in 1944 of wounds sustained in the Battle of Normandy. The bridge is for pedestrian use only.
From there we followed a path that leads down to the David Fortier River Park. It is located where Plum Creek flows into the west branch of the Rocky River.
The stone is the same sandstone for which the neighboring city of Berea was famous in the 19th century. There were quarries in Olmsted Falls also.
As Plum Creek joins the river there are several small cascades which gave Olmsted Falls its name.
A water bird (a heron, I believe) was fishing along the bank of the river.
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