Red Bridge

Length 78 feet – width 16 feet

Listed on the Register of

Historic Places

by the U.S. Department of

the Interior,

National Park Service

Erected in 1891

by

the Berlin Iron Bridge Company

Red Bridge is of lenticular pony truss design. It replaced a high sided wooden ...

Bedford Co. Bridge #15

Colvin Covered Bridge

WGC8 38-05-24

Rehabilitated in 1996

Co. Commissioners: Norma C. Ickes, Chairperson; Dick M. Rice; Gary W. Ebersole

Co. Engineer: P. Joseph Lehman, Inc.

Contractor: Kee Ta Qyah Construction

History of the Bridge

Constructed around 1880, the Colvin Covered Bridge is one of Bedford ...

Geary’s Three Bridges

July 19, 1864. Covered by the fire of Geary’s 12 guns [US] on the ridge N. of the cr., together with the musketry of a heavy skirmish line, the division pioneers hastily built a foot bridge with timbers previously prepared.

Ireland’s ...

Veterans Memorial Bridge - 1921 / Grist Mill - Indian Battle - R

(Front):Veterans Memorial Bridge - 1921This reinforced concrete river bridge, thought to be the first in Alabama. Was erected over Pea River in 1920-21 at a cost of $92,108.97. It was dedicated on August 3, 1921 as a memorial to the ...

The Cox Covered Bridge

The Bridges of Vinton County

The Cox Covered Bridge was built in 1884 by the Diltz and Steel Company and uses a variation of the Vinton County Queenpost truss system. In late August 1992, workers from the Vinton County Engineer's office ...

View Near the M Street Bridge

Sacramento’s importance during the Gold Rush was as a supply depot for outlying towns in the foothill-mining region. The City’s central location to the northern mining region, combined with reliable year-round river transportation to San Francisco, made it ideal as ...

The Northern Electric Bridge

In 1911, the Northern Electric Railway Company, along with Sacramento and Yolo counties, built the Northern Electric Bridge. The bridge carried a single railroad track with twin motor-vehicle roadways. Pedestrian walks cantilevered from the central support structure. It had two ...

Tower Bridge: Gateway to the Capital

Identifying A Need

By the early 1930’s, Americans were moving away from trains and ships and turning to automobiles as their mode of transporation. As a result, traffic on roadways increased dramatically. In Sacramento, M Street (now Capital Mall), one of ...

The Tower Bridge

The Tower Bridge, a vertical-lift span, was opened for traffic on December 15, 1935 and was built at a cost of $994,000. The State Department of Public Works, the City and the County of Sacramento and the Federal Government built ...

Sach's Covered Bridge

The Sachs Bridge, built in 1852 by David S. Stoner, is one of the few remaining bridges built using Connecticut architect Ithiel Town's lattice system of support trusses. Part of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia began its retreat to ...