The Bridge

Four bridges have spanned the Barren River at this site. The center pylon dates from the first bridge that was built in 1838. The Confederate Army burned the 1838 wooden bridge when evacuating Bowling Green in 1862. The current bridge ...

The Guy West Bridge

Named in honor of

Dr. Guy A. West

Founding President of

Sacramento State College

(1947 – 1966)

Under his guidance and dedicated

leadership, the university grew from

four faculty and fewer than two

hundred students to a comprehensive

regional institute of higher

learning with a national reputation

for excellence

Marker can be ...

The Wilton E. Hall Bridge

Named in honor of

Wilton E. Hall

Publisher of

The Anderson Independent

and

Daily Mail

For his dedicated service

to Anderson County

and South Carolina

Marker is on Interstate 85 south of South Carolina Highway 187.

Courtesy hmdb.org

The Silver Bridge Disaster

On December 15, 1967, about one mile downstream from this historic marker, a national tragedy occured. Forty-six interstate travelers lost their lives when the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River during five o'clock rush hour traffic. The 2,235 foot ...

The Ohio River Bridge

Cairo, Illinois - Wickliffe, Kentucky

Completed November 11, 1933

Freed of Tolls November 11, 1948

by

The Cairo Bridge Commission

The Ohio River Bridge was conceived and built in the public interest by the Cairo Bridge Commission with the cooperation of the Federal Emergency Administration ...

Steamboats Give Way to the New Bay Bridge

"There was a wharf where the steamboats came in. Right down at the foot of Prince George Street...The Tolchester boat used to come in and they'd pick up one thing or another, an dbring them all up Prince George Street. ...

The Sykesville Bypass Bridge

An Aluminum Bridge

This bridge is one of only six aluminum girder bridges in the United States, and the only one in Maryland. Despite its ordinary appearance, the bridge is a remarkable feat of engineering with worldwide significance.

The Sykesville Bypass Bridge ...

The Marsh Rainbow Arch Bridge

The City of Chippewa Falls was organized around two moving bodies of water, the Chippewa River and its tributary Duncan Creek. Bridges soon became necessary with rapid expansion of the transportation system in the late 19th and early 20th century. ...

The Old Lattice Bridge

Side 1:

The second covered bridge across the Chattahoochee River, connecting Clay County, Georgia and Henry County. Alabama was constructed between 1867-69. Bonner and Walden, a New York construction company, were the original contractors but the bridge was completed by Horace ...

Union Assault on the Bridge

Union General John G. Foster’s prime objective, the wooden covered Wilmington & Weldon railroad bridge, crossed the Neuse River here. After the 51st and 52nd North Carolina regiments were pushed back by the Union advance coming through the fields on ...