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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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Crossing the Kaskaskia became much easier when the bridge now known as the General Dean Suspension Bridge was built in 1859, at a cost of $ 40, 000.
In 1859, Louis Guinard built a bridge and trading post near the original ferry locations.
Brunel died in 1859, without seeing the completion of the bridge.
Soon after roads began to be established through the Fall River valley and in 1858 the McElroy Brothers who had just moved into the area built a bridge across the Pit river, Sam Lockhart having established a ferry on the same river, proceeded to build his bridge across the Fall river in an effort to make toll revenue during the fall of 1859.
In 1859 he promoted the Parkville and Grand River Railroad to build the first bridge across the Missouri River.
In 1859 Roebling completed another suspension bridge at Pittsburgh.
The first main span was positioned in 1857 and the completed bridge was opened by Prince Albert on 2 May 1859.
In September 1859 local residents formed a committee for the construction of a pile bridge over the Murrumbidgee River.
In 1859 the original bridge was bought by the railway company extending the South Eastern Railway into the newly opened Charing Cross railway station.
century in two stages: the first bridge was built by the Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway between 1859 and 1860 at a cost of £ 84, 000 to carry trains into Victoria station ; it was the first railway bridge across the Thames in central London.
Opened in 1859, the bridge was the first to span the St. Lawrence River, and as such is an important historic bridge in Canada.
The first freight train however had already passed over the bridge on December 12, 1859, and the first passenger train had crossed the bridge five days later on December 17.
In 1859, Louis Guinard built a toll bridge across the North Platte and a trading post near the original ferry's locations.
In 1859 the Otago Provincial Government built a wooden truss bridge which rested on a large rock in the middle of the falls and was suitable only for foot traffic with large animals and vehicles restricted to crossing on the ferry.
A timber bridge was constructed in 1859, west of the current bridge, and named the Old Frome Bridge.
The bridge was widened 1859.
It was not until 1859 that a proper iron bridge was opened as a replacement.
The Victoria Bridge was the first bridge to cross the St. Lawrence River, and was the longest bridge in the world when it was completed in 1859.

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