Site of Silver Bridge Collapse

Site of

Silver Bridge Collapse

when 46 lives were lost

Dec. 15, 1967

Mayor

John C. Musgrave

City Clerk

Patty Burdette

City Council

Jack L. Fowler • Harry N. Rhodes

Russell V. Holland • Leonard F. Riffle

Howard Lee Miller • Delvin J. Simms

Dave Reynolds • Wallace Smith, Jr.

Howard Price • ...

Eugene Covered Bridge

County commissioners ordered (1873) to replace unsafe bridge over Big Vermillion River at Eugene. Built 1873 by Joseph J. Daniels, Rockville: Burr truss design, 180 foot span, using existing abutments. Closed to vehicle traffic, 1974. Listed in National Register of ...

Newport Covered Bridge

County commissioners ordered (1885) as link across Little Vermillion River at Newport & Quaker Point Free Gravel Road. Built 1885 by Joseph J. Daniels, Rockville: Burr truss design, 180 foot span, sandstone abutments. Floor replaced, 1984. Listed in National Register ...

Blaine Hill "S" Bridge / Blaine Hill Viaduct

Blaine Hill "S" Bridge

The first Blaine Hill Bridge was constructed in 1828 as part of the National Road, the nation's first federally funded highway. This three-arch S-shaped structure, 345 feet in length, spans Wheeling Creek (a tributary of the Ohio ...

Alexis de Tocqueville At Sandy Bridge

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), author of the classic Democracy in America, and Gustave de Beaumont (1802-1866) spent four frigid days and nights, December 12-16, 1831 at Sandy Bridge, now Hollow Rock. The postmaster, Zephaniah Harris, and his wife, Martha, lodged ...

The United States Naval Academy Bridge

A bridge has served this area since 1836 when a timber trestle bridge with a swing span was built across the Severn River. It was replaced with a concrete and steel low-level drawbridge in 1924. After more than 70 years ...

The Founders Bridge

The

Founders Bridge

Commemorating the men and women

who traveled here in 1636

with the Rev. Thomas Hooker

to found the City of Hartford

This plaque placed by

The Society of the Descendants Of the Founders of Hartford

in the year 2000

Marker can be reached from the intersection ...

Toll Bridge

To cross Clear Creek in 1865 it would have cost you 10 cents to walk across, 25 cents to ride over on horseback, and $1.25 to cross by wagon. Charles Camden, the bridge owner, spent $20,000 to improve the road ...

The Winslow Bridge

This date medallion is from the Winslow Bridge that once spanned the Little Colorado River on historic Route 66 just east of Winslow. Because the river had always proved a daunting impediment to travelers, this bridge crossing became a strategic ...

Robert Strawbridge

? The first preacher of Methodism in America. He formed at his house (still standing, 1938) one-half mile east of here the first Class and the first Society of American Methodism. He built the first log meeting house (1764) for ...