Francis Scott Key Memorial Bridge

To the northwest, across the Patapsco, is Fort McHenry, which British Naval Forces bombarded September 13-14, 1814. Detained on a cartel boat, Francis Scott Key waw through a spyglass that the star-spangled banner yet waved in the dawn’s early light ...

Stone Bridge

Strategic Crossings

From the east side of this stream Union cannon fired the first shots of First Manassas at Confederates on the opposite ridge. The attack was a ruse. Though Stone Bridge offered one of the few easy routes across Bull ...

Perkiomen Bridge

Built in 1799, it is one of the oldest bridges still in use in the State. A lottery was authorized by a 1797 law to raise $20,000 for its construction.

Marker is on Main Street/Ridge Pike (Old U.S. 422), on the ...

Airborne Forces Memorial Bridge

Parachutes • Air Assault

Gliders • Glider Pilots

Airborne

Forces

Memorial

To Their Perpetual Honor

Presented By The Citizens Of

Wisconsin

and

The Badger State Chapter

of the

82nd Airborne Division Association

[82nd Airborne insignia]

"America's Guard of Honor"

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Clark Street (State Highway 66) and Water ...

The James Rumsey Bridge

Named in honor of the inventor, James Rumsey, who made successful demonstrations of his steamboat on the Potomac River here on December 3 and 11, 1787.

Opened and dedicated on July 15, 1939.

Marker is on North Duke Street / Shepherdstown ...

Building the Funkstown Bridge

“The turnpike bridge at Funkstown is the only one...which seems to belong to a town” —Helen Ashe Hays, The Antietam and its Bridges

This bridge, finished in 1823, is perhaps the oldest one over Antietam Creek. Irish immigrant laborers made up ...

Funkstown Bridge No. 2

This bridge over Antietam Creek at Funkstown was built in 1833 by George Weaver for $1,800. At this site was Shafer’s Mill where flour was ground. The most notable feature of this bridge is the graduated size of its three ...

Pry’s Mill Bridge

This two-arch bridge was built over the Little Antietam Creek by George Burgan for $1,650 in 1858. Its cutwaters, the upstream pier bulwarks designed to divide the current and break up ice flows and log jams, are unique in that ...

Hess’s Mill Bridge

This two-arch bridge was built by John Weaver in 1832. It is unique in that one arch is so much larger than the other. The smaller arch may have accommodated the millrace which was located on that side of the ...

Mackinac Bridge

Courageous Members of Organized Labor

1954 – 1958

State of Michigan

Hon. G. Mennen Williams · Governor

Mackinac Bridge Authority

Prentiss M. Brown · Chairman

Charles T. Fisher, Jr. · Deceased;

George A. Osborn

Mead L. Bricker; Murray D. Van Wagoner

William J. Cochran; Fred M. Zeder · ...