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Kinzua is a ghost town or former town site in Wheeler County, Oregon, United States.It existed as a company town from 1927 to 1978. [3] Kinzua lies directly east of Fossil and uses a Fossil mailing address.
SteelSeries was founded as Icemat in 2001 by Jacob Wolff-Petersen. [3] The company's original name was Soft Trading, and it was changed to SteelSeries in 2007. [4] Soft Trading made the Icemat and SteelPad mouse mats, which influenced the company's eventual name change.
The Kinzua Viaduct, located 115 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, was built by 40 workers in just 94 days and built from tubular wrought iron columns.
The Kinzua Bridge or the Kinzua Viaduct (/ ˈ k ɪ n z uː /, [2] /-z uː ə /) was a railroad trestle that spanned Kinzua Creek in McKean County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The bridge was 301 feet (92 m) tall and 2,052 feet (625 m) long.
Kinzua Creek, a tributary of the Allegheny River in Pennsylvania; Kinzua Bridge State Park, located in McKean County, Pennsylvania . Kinzua Bridge, a former railway bridge located in the above state park
The upper reaches of the creek pass through Kinzua Bridge State Park, where the creek was spanned by the Kinzua Viaduct until a tornado destroyed the viaduct in 2003. [3] ...
The Allegheny Reservoir is a man-made lake created along the Allegheny River with the construction of the Kinzua Dam in 1965. The dam was authorized by the United States Congress as a flood control measure in the Flood Control Acts of 1936 and 1938, and was built by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers beginning in 1960.
According to several historians, the U.S. state of Oregon contains over 200 ghost towns. [1] [2] Professor and historian Stephen Arndt has counted a total of 256 ghost towns in the state, some well known, others "really obscure."