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The Bunker Hill Covered Bridge is one of two covered bridges left in North Carolina, (the other being the Pisgah Covered Bridge in Randolph County), and is possibly the last wooden bridge in the United States with Haupt truss construction. [2] It was built in 1895 by Andrew Loretz Ramsour (1817–1906) in Claremont, North Carolina, and crosses ...
The Leonard P. Zakim (/ ˈ z eɪ k ə m /) Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge (also known as "The Zakim") is a cable-stayed bridge completed in 2003 across the Charles River in Boston, Massachusetts. It is a replacement for the Charlestown High Bridge , an older truss bridge constructed in the 1950s.
Bunker Hill Covered Bridge [1] Catawba: Claremont: 1895 81 feet (25 m) Lyle Creek Catawba County Historical Association [5] Haupt: Only bridge in the US using this design [6] Pisgah Community Covered Bridge [1] Randolph: Pisgah
Scuppernong River Bridge: 1926, 1927 1992-03-05 Columbia: Tyrrell: Warren ponytruss swing span Skeen's Mill Covered Bridge: 1885–1900 1972-01-20 Flint Hill: Randolph: Town lattice-truss/queenpost Southern Railway Company Overhead Bridge: 1919 2007-04-19
The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge over the Charles River was named to honor Zakim's civil rights and race relations work in Boston. Leonard Paul Zakim [1] (November 17, 1953 – December 2, 1999) was a Jewish American religious and civil rights leader in Boston. Zakim died in 1999 after a five-year battle with bone-marrow cancer.
There are only three authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of North Carolina of which one is historic. [1] A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction. An authentic bridge is constructed using trusses rather than other methods such as stringers, a popular choice for non-authentic covered bridges.
The Groundhog Day visit to the Church Hill Covered Bridge was my first exposure to the Sandy and Beaver Canal. I knew very little about this privately built spur, which served as a link from the ...
Seventeen historic covered bridges; the three oldest ones are also the longest. U.S. Wisconsin: The only remaining historic covered bridge in Wisconsin is the covered bridge in Cedarburg. [16] [17] There are also the Smith Rapids Covered Bridge in Park Falls built in 1991, [18] and the Springwater Volunteer Covered Bridge built in 1997. [19]