The Carrollton Bridge

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The Wabash & Erie Canal meets the Wabash River

Carroll County Wabash & Erie Canal

Delphi, Indiana

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1844 Timber Truss Bridge

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

The Bridge Over 4th of July 1804 Creek

This stream was named by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark when they stopped at the present site of Atchison, Kansas on July 4, 1804. The following is an excerpt from Clark's logbook:

"...as this creek has no name, and this being ...

The McGilvray "Seven Bridges Road"

In the early 1850s Scottish immigrant Alexander McGilvray established a small settlement and ferry service, both known as "McGilvray's Ferry," along the Black River. For the next forty years the ferry made seasonal river crossings despite frequent log jams. Local ...

The People’s Bridge

Landmark Era - Since 1972

Built to pre-automobile specifications before the turn of the 20th Century, the People's Bridge by mid century earned the nickname, "Old Shakey," because of the noisy vibrations of its cast-iron superstructure under an ever-increasing volume of ...

The Borden Bridge

Across this bridge, during the Civil War, Gail Borden Jr.’s New York Condensed Milk Company shipped condensed milk to the Union Troops.

Marker is at the intersection of Main Street (U.S. 6) and Peaceable Hill Road, on the left when traveling ...

The Richmond-Petersburg Railroad Bridge

The expansion of railroads in the 1830s fueled the growth of iron works like Tredegar, and by the Civil War, five railroads had come into Richmond. The Richmond-Petersburg was the first railroad bridge in the city. It was built by ...

The Yuba River Bridge at Parks Bar

1913 - 1994

William M. Thomas of Thomas and Post Consulting Engineers designed the 685-foot-long Parks Bar Bridge in 1912 for Yuba County. The original 16-foot-wide bridge with four 140-foot-long arch spans was constructed by the Portland Concrete Pile Company in ...

The Right Wing at Stockbridge

On the night of Nov. 15, 1864, the Right Wing (15th and 17th Corps) of General Sherman's army [US] camped near Stockbridge on its destructive March to the Sea. The Left Wing (14th and 20th Corps) camped between Stone Mountain ...

Old Army Bridge Over the Platte River

Erected in 1875. This bridge was a vital link between Cheyenne, Fort Laramie and the Military outposts, Indiana Agencies and gold fields of the Black Hills, Dakota Region.

Placed by The Historical Landmark Commission of Wyoming, June 1951

Marker is on Wyoming ...

Battles For The Bridges

Gauley Bridge - A Town in Between

When the war began, most residents of this part of present-day West Virginia were Confederate in their sympathies. Both Confederate and Union forces considered the wooden covered bridge here strategically important because the James ...