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 ...

The Defense of the Oconee Bridge

On Nov. 19, 1854, Maj. A. L. Hartridge, CSA, arrived from Savannah with 186 men and 2 guns [CS] to defend the railroad bridge against raiding parties from Gen. Sherman’s army [US], then on its destructive March to the Sea. ...

Milwaukee Street Bridge

One of the nation’s most innovative bridge designers of the 20th century, Daniel B. Luten, designed the Milwaukee Street Bridge. Constructed in 1930 by Eau Claire Engineering, the bridge was a rare example of a steel-reinforced, three span, open-spandrel, continuous ...

A Bridge to the Past

In 1819 a covered bridge was built to span this part of the Saluda River. Confederate Troops burned the bridge in 1865 hoping to stop the advance of General Sherman's army.

The burning didn't halt Sherman -- he ordered the construction ...

The Carrollton Bridge

[ Front ]

The Wabash & Erie Canal meets the Wabash River

Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal

Delphi, Indiana

[ See Photo #2:]

1844 Timber Truss Bridge

The Wabash and Erie Canal authorities built the first bridge here in 1844 to accommodate the Canal’s only ...

Acquacknonk Bridge

American troops encamped

between the Hackensack and

Passaic Rivers, were ordered

by Washington, Nov. 21, 1776,

to cross the Passaic here.

After dismantling the bridge,

they marched across Jersey.

The Tap House often

was used as a headquarters.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Avenue and Prospect Street, ...

Lincoln-Haycraft Memorial Bridge

Here along Severn's Valley Creek, Samuel Haycraft, Sr. built mill, raceway in 1796. Thomas Lincoln, father of Pres. Lincoln, employed in building it, received his first monetary wages when about 21 years of age. Abraham Lincoln, age 7, with his ...

Hudson River Bridge Cornerstone

The North River Bridge Co.

Ground broken June 8th, 1895

First foundation masonry

laid June 18th, 1895

Courtesy hmdb.org

Grant Memorial Bridge

The cast iron nameplate mounted on the walkway is one of two that were formerly located on the original Grant Memorial Bridge. The original steel truss structure was constructed from 1925-1927 by the Brookville Construction Company, Brookville, Ohio, at a ...

Bollinger Mill/Burfordville Covered Bridge

(Front):

Bollinger Mill

Maj. George Frederick Bollinger built the first mill here in 1800, on a 640-acre grant from Louis Lorimier, Spanish Commandant of Cape Girardeau district of Upper Louisiana. A German Swiss from North Carolina, Bollinger visited this area 1796, and ...