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The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet (924 m) long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. With an arch 1,700 feet (518 m) long, the New River Gorge Bridge was the world's longest single-span arch bridge for 26 years; [ 4 ] [ 5 ] it is now the ...
The Tunney Hunsaker Bridge (also known as the Fayette Station Bridge) is an historic truss bridge over the New River in New River Gorge, West Virginia. [1] The bridge is named after Tunney Hunsaker , American boxer and former chief-of-police at Fayetteville, West Virginia .
Like Kay Moor, the town is built around the railroad line at the bottom of the gorge, with an array of coke ovens and mining structures, as well as a bridge across the New River to South Nuttall. [2] Nuttallburg was closely associated with the Nuttallburg underground mine, a room and pillar mine that was sealed in 1958.
Eugene A. Carter Memorial Bridge I-64 / US 119: 1975 [8: South Side Bridge 1936 [8] Replaced earlier bridge opened in 1891 [13] 35th Street Bridge CR 60 63: 1975, 1976 [8] Replaced Kanawha City Bridge opened in 1914 [14] Chuck Yeager Memorial Bridge I-64 / I-77 (West Virginia Turnpike)
Fayetteville is a town in and the county seat of Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 2,887 at the 2020 census. [2]Fayetteville lies adjacent to the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve and is directly south of the New River Gorge Bridge.
Bridge Day is an annual one-day festival in Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia, United States [1] The event is coordinated by the New River Gorge Bridge Day Commission, and is sponsored by numerous companies of both local and international significance. [2]
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President Jimmy Carter signed legislation establishing New River Gorge National River on November 10, 1978 (Pub. L. 95–625).As stated in the legislation, the park was established as a unit of the national park system "for the purpose of conserving and interpreting outstanding natural, scenic, and historic values and objects in and around the New River Gorge, and preserving as a free-flowing ...