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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 ...
Barrackville Covered Bridge. This is a list of West Virginia covered bridges. There are 17 historic wooden covered bridges in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Only three of these bridges were built before 1870 and they are the three longest in the state. Each uses a standard truss design, braced with the Burr Arch. No one-truss design dominates ...
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 .
The Wheeling Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the main channel of the Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia. It was the largest suspension bridge in the world from 1849 until 1851. Charles Ellet Jr. (who also worked on the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge ) designed it and supervised construction of what became the first bridge ...
Concrete arch bridge B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing: 1894, 1931 1978-02-14 Harpers Ferry, West Virginia Jefferson: Barrackville Covered Bridge ...
The long tied-arch bridge carries four lanes of concurrent highways I-70, US 40 and US 250 over the main channel of the Ohio River between Wheeling Island and downtown Wheeling, West Virginia. The bridge is the easternmost portion of a 1-mile (1.6 km) long chain of elevated structures spanning Wheeling Creek in Ohio, the Ohio River back channel ...
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)
The Robert H. Mollohan–Jefferson Street Bridge, also known as the Million Dollar Bridge or High Level Bridge, is located in Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. It was dedicated on May 30, 1921. This bridge connects east and west Fairmont, and crosses the Monongahela River. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [1]