Bridgeforth High School

Though black public education existed in Giles County by 1869, Bridgeforth was the first black high school. Designed by America's first black architectural firm, McKissack and McKissack, which had the local roots, and named for black educator J. T. Bridgeforth, ...

High Bridge

Critical Span

From here you can see the 1914 steel railroad bridge that spans the Appomattox River above the brick piers of the antebellum High Bridge, which carried the South Side Railroad. The old wooden bridge and the wagon bridge, just ...

Ocean-to-Ocean Bridge Highway Bridge

Constructed - 1915 & Rededicated - 2002

In 1913 after strong campaigning from the citizens of Yuma, Representative Carl Hayden secured funding for this bridge. When completed, it was the only highway bridge across the Colorado River for 1,200 miles. ...

High Bridge and the Railroad

The High Bridge Branch of the Central Jersey Railroad of New Jersey

Columbia Trail – A 7-mile Hunterdon County Greenway, from the Borough of High Bridge, north to the Morris County line.

Opened in July of 1876, the High Bridge Branch was ...

Pecos River High Bridge

High canyon walls dominate the last 60 miles of the Pecos River before it enters the Rio Grande. The Southern Pacific Railroad built the first high bridge across the Pecos in 1891. The first highway bridge to span the river ...

High Bridge Company 1268 / Civilian Conservation Corps

Voorhees State Park

[Main Marker]:

On October 31, 1933, CCC Company 1268, S.P.-5, arrived at High Bridge, N.J., four years after former Governor Foster M. Voorhees donated his 325 acre farm, known as Hills Acres, to the State of New Jersey to ...

Poughkeepsie-Highland Bridge

National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark

The Poughkeepsie-Highland Bridge is the oldest surviving steel cantilever bridge in the world, and when built, had the longest truss and cantilever spans. The bridge provided the first, and only, all-rail route across the Husdon River ...

High Bridge and Longwood Valley Branch

N.J. Central Railroad completed in 1875 to bring iron ore from Morris County to forges at High Bridge. In use until 1976 when the track right-of-way was sold.

Marker is on Cokesbury Road (County Route 639) near Columbia Trail (recreational), on ...

High Bridge

Home of Union Forge, maker of early farm equipment,

cannonballs for Continential Army. Factory, later known as Taylor Wharton ceased operations in 1971.

Marker is on W Main Street (County Route 513), on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Cavalry Battle at High Bridge

Union Opportunity Lost

Just northeast of here, on the afternoon of April 6, 1865, a Union detachment tried and failed to burn High Bridge – where the South Side Railroad crossed the Appomattox River – and restrict the Confederate retreat to ...