A dedication ceremony to mark the return of the four newly-restored lamp posts to the Main Street bridge was held in Batavia Dec. 14.
Devoted to preserving the history of the village for future generations, the Village Association of Batavia has recently had the one-of-a-kind custom made lamp posts completely restored.
The lamp posts, which have been lighting the Main Street Bridge over the East Fork of the Little Miami River since the 1930’s, had become severely damaged due to time and the constant exposure to natural elements over their lengthy and interesting history.
In the 1930’s, a decade of national economic “depression,” the Main Street bridge entering the village was built through the Works Progress Administration, one of the many economic stimulus recovery programs implemented by then president Franklin D. Roosevelt.