Switzer Covered Bridge

Franklin County's only covered bridge spans North Elkhorn Creek and is 120 ft. long and 11 ft. wide. It was built by George Hockensmith circa 1855. each entrance has a sawtooth edge; the lattice is pinned with trunnels (treenasil). Restored ...

Hiawatha Bridge

Erected 1968

Named in commemoration of the Indian Sachem Hiawatha of the Iroquois Nation

Marker is on NYS 17 Access Road 0.3 miles east of Southside Drive (New York Route 434), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Old Bridges at this Location

Hancocks Bridge and the Revolution War

Old Bridges at this Location

The first bridge across Alloways Creek at this location was built by John Hancock and others in 1709 and was known as Hancocks Bridge.

The same year (1709) two other bridges were ...

Quinton’s Bridge

On March 17, 1778, Colonial militia formed a line of defense on the south bank of Alloways Creek. The British, having occupied Salem, attacked the next day and by a ruse drew the Colonials across the creek into a(n) ambush. ...

The Golden Gate Bridge: Vision, Genius and Expert Care

"The Golden Gate!" Army explorer John Charles Fremont named the entrance to San Francisco Bay in 1846. His Majesty Emperor Joshua Abraham Norton decreed in 1869 that a bridge be built “…across the Golden Gate to Sausalito Ridge.” Work finally ...

James U. Jackson Memorial Bridge / James U. Jackson ( 1856-1925)

James U. Jackson Memorial Bridge

The first North Augusta bridge was built in 1891 by James U. Jackson. The present bridge, built in 1939, was formally dedicated as "The James U. Jackson Memorial Bridge." The building of the 1891 bridge, the ...

The Bridge of Nations

A bridge to a new world

founded by the imagination of a dreamer

Forged with courage ~ Traversed by Greatness an everlasting connection between our nations Italy and America ~ Brethren forever together may we sail

- Joseph C. DeFilippi

Marker is on ...

Potomac Creek Bridge

“Beanpoles and Cornstalks”

The mounds of earth beside you and the stone blocks protruding from it are all that remain of the south abutment of a bridge that once carried the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad across Potomac Creek. During the ...

Louie Morris Memorial Bridge

January 17 , 1893 - May 10 , 1955

Formerly located upsteam 2 miles at

Old Brown's Ferry

Relocated 1958

Louie Morris Bridge

Erected by the Highway Departments of South

Carolina and Georgia, in co-operation with

the U.S. Bureau Of Public Roads.

Named in honor of Louie Morris, ...

The Errant Pontoon Bridge: Paces Ferry

July 5, 1864. During Johnston’s retreat from Smyrna, a portion of his wagon-train detoured from the Atlanta-Marietta rd. via Vining’s Station to a pontoon bridge at Pace’s Ferry.

Wheeler’s Cav. escorted the trains; when all were across, the bridge was cut ...