“Lodwick Ulrich, a native-born Slabtowner, for past four score years who died recently, oft recalled an amusing incident that occurred when the old river town was in its swaddling clothes, and he was but a lad of six or seven years of age. He had gone to Pig Iron corner where his father was employed by BF Conway & Co., commission and forwarding agents. While there he was sent on an errand to Vincent Brodbeck who lived and was in business conducting what was long known as the Bridge store and to people generally as “the Point,” or as Ollie Hanson called it, the “West Point.” Incidentally Mr. Ulrich said the bridge spanned the Scioto there (the first bridge) extended from the rear of Brodbeck’s to a point across the river locally known as “Popcorn Point.” This name was due to the fact that Swift Roper, whose habitat was there-abouts, and who will be recalled by some of the older persons, made delicious taffy and pop corn balls which he sold on the street. Young Ulrich completing the errand, wandered northeast and presently came upon what was left of an old burying ground, the city’s first graveyard, situated between Chicken Gut and on the site later occupied by the Burgess iron and steel works. 1
