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The bridge was built in 1855 by Charles Malhorn and Levi Fink.
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It was to provide a safe and spacious crossing for these caravans, and also to make a pleasance for the city, that Shah Abbas 2, in about 1657 built, of sun-baked brick, tile, and stone, the present bridge.
As I got off the trolley at Kehl bridge the next morning, I was met by what looked like 5,000 students, some of whom were carrying sticks apparently for the coming `` battle '' with the police.
A special guard was posted at my end of the bridge to make sure I didn't cross, the ludicrousness of the situation being revealed fully in that everyone else -- men, women, and children, dogs, cats, horses, cars, trucks, baby carriages -- could cross Kehl bridge into Kehl without surveillance.
The special guard, however, was still posted on Kehl bridge.
Grabski's shanty was beyond the bridge over the River Bystrzyca near the rail center.
A month later the General Court served notice to the town of Newbury that the bridge was to be built.
On November 26 of that year the bridge was completed and opened.
Timothy Palmer, who invented and later patented the arch type of construction for wooden bridges, was the genius who planned and supervised the building of the Essex, or `` Deer Island '' bridge although the actual work was carried out under the direction of William Coombs, who received $300 as recompense.
It was indeed a remarkable feat that a man who had had no experience of bridge building should have applied the principle of the arch, which appears in his famous bridges at Portsmouth, Haverhill, and Philadelphia.
The `` Essex Journal '' says that he `` delivered an oration on the bridge, which for elegance of style, propriety of speech or force of argument, was truly Ciceronian ''.
The north portion of the Essex bridge was well worth the cost of construction, although it proved to be twice what was estimated in the beginning.
In 1810 it was torn down and replaced by a chain suspension bridge.
In spite of this catastrophe, the bridge was rebuilt on the same plan and opened again on July 17, 1827.
This second chain bridge was 570 feet long, had two thirty-foot towers and a draw, and a double roadway.
The Essex bridge was a toll crossing until 1868, when the County Commissioners laid out all the Merrimack bridges as highways.
He was closely followed by the Ohio and Indiana troops -- thus the old bridge has another distinction ; ;
Completed and opened for traffic in 1852, the bridge was designed and built by Lemuel Chenoweth and his brother, Eli, of Beverly.
The Philippi bridge, however, was the Chenoweth master piece, with its 139-foot, dual lane, span -- and it stands today as a monument to its builders.
Never rebuilt, the bridge was strengtened in 1938 by two extra piers, a concrete floor, and a walk-way along the upper side in order to care for modern traffic.
General Jones was fresh from a long series of bridge burnings, including the long bridge at Fairmont, and, after seeing a great drove of horses and cattle he had collected safely across the bridge, he sent his men to work piling combustibles in and around it.
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Many of the burhs were twin towns that straddled a river and connected by a fortified bridge, like those built by Charles the Bald a generation before.
It crosses Florence, where it passes below the Ponte Vecchio and the Santa Trìnita bridge ( built by Bartolomeo Ammanati, but inspired by Michelangelo ).
A bridge is a structure built to span physical obstacles such as a body of water, valley, or road, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle.
List of Roman bridges | Roman bridge of Córdoba, Spain, built in the 1st century BC.
Although large Chinese bridges of wooden construction existed at the time of the Warring States, the oldest surviving stone bridge in China is the Zhaozhou Bridge, built from 595 to 605 AD during the Sui Dynasty.
In 1927 welding pioneer Stefan Bryła designed the first welded road bridge in the world, which was later built across the river Słudwia Maurzyce near Łowicz, Poland in 1929.
Modern bridge are currently built in concrete, steel, fiber reinforced polymers ( FRP ), stainless steel or combinations of those materials.
Often in palaces a bridge will be built over an artificial waterway as symbolic of a passage to an important place or state of mind.
The bridge will be built near the northern end of the Bosphorus, between the villages of Garipçe on the European side and Poyrazköy on the Asian side.
A bridge was built over the river Nabalia, where the warring parties approached each other on both sides to negotiate peace.
* Wettsteinbrücke ( current structure built 1998, original bridge built 1879 )
* Mittlere Brücke ( current structure built 1905, original bridge built 1225 as the first bridge to cross the Rhine River )
* Dreirosenbrücke ( built 2004, original bridge built 1935 )
They took a detour and built a new bridge over the river, just outside of Tavistock.
Finberg pointed out, however, that a document of 1651 refers to Tavistock's guildhall as Guilehall, so Guilebridge is more likely to be guild bridge, probably because it was built or maintained by one of the town guilds.
In 39, Caligula performed a spectacular stunt by ordering a temporary floating bridge to be built using ships as pontoons, stretching for over two miles from the resort of Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli.
The original bridge was built with private capital and then purchased by the state for $ 2. 5 million in 1951.
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* 1855 – The first bridge over the Mississippi River opens in what is now Minneapolis, Minnesota, a crossing made today by the Father Louis Hennepin Bridge.
The company soon branched out into bridge building, one of the first orders being for the Inverness Bridge, completed in 1855.
Coal from the mines of the Zerbe Valley, near Trevorton was shipped to the town via the Trevorton and Susquehanna Railroad, which was completed in 1855, crossing the Susquehanna River on a long bridge from Herndon to Port Trevorton.
Formerly a railroad bridge constructed by the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad in 1855, the bridge was sold off when the new one upstream was constructed.
The new wood bridge was constructed on the railroad mainline during 1855.
The bridge has undergone much repair and renovation work, including rebuilding of seven spans in the long arm and lowering of the roadway by changing the arches from an almost semi-circular to elliptical form ( 1848 – 1855 ), lowering of sidewalks and faces of the piers, spandrels, cornices and replacing crumbled corbels as closely to the originals as possible.
As a result first bridge over the Ovens was completed in early 1855.
In March 1855, Wekey held a meeting at the Bulleen Hotel and called for shareholders, " each according to his means ”, in a proposed toll bridge, the first bridge ever built over the Upper Yarra, joining " Eltham " to Templestowe, and replacing a toll punt being operated by the company.
By 21 September 1855, the plan for this second bridge was underway.
Around 1855 another bridge was built nearby in what was Eltham but is now Lower Plenty, over the Plenty River.
In March 1855, Wekey held a meeting at the Bulleen Hotel and called for shareholders, each “ according to his means ”, for a proposed toll bridge, the first bridge ever built over the Upper Yarra, joining Lower Plenty to Templestowe, and replacing a punt being operated by the company.
Around 1855 another bridge was built in what is now Lower Plenty but over the Plenty River.
Around 1855 another bridge was built nearby in what is now Lower Plenty, built over the Plenty River.
On 3 July 1855 in the Straits of Genitchi, Sea of Azov in the Crimea, Seaman Trewavas of HMS Beagle was sent in a 4-oared gig to destroy a bridge, and so cut the Russians ' main supply route.
On the following day, 9 September 1855, the Russian army retired by a bridge of boats to the north to evacuate the south side of Sebastopol and their navy sank all their ships of war in the harbour, which signalled Russia ’ s capitulation.
On 17 September 1855 at Genitichi, Crimea, Lieutenant Day of HMS Recruit was put ashore from a rowing boat to reconnoitre the bridge, batteries and enemy gun boats on the Arabat Spit.
* February 16 – A new suspension bridge opens over Niagara Falls, replacing the previous span built in 1855.
The original crossing, which opened as a toll bridge on January 23, 1855, is believed to have been the first permanent span across the Mississippi at any point.
The viaduct was designed by the Irish civil engineer Sir John MacNeill ; construction began on the bridge in 1853 and was completed in 1855.
The 1855 Bristol Ferry Light still remains at the base of the bridge.
It wasn't until April 1855, recalls Scott, that " the first train crossed thr bridge over the Rideau River to the station at Sussex Street ".
1.586 seconds.