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The project to build the bridge was started in 1894 when Catawba County Commissioners requested nearby owners of the Bunker Hill Farm to build and maintain a bridge that would cross Lyle Creek on the old Island Ford Road (a former Native American trail). According to local archives, Ramsour found the Haupt truss design in a book.
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.
Billed as shortest covered bridge in USA. At 19.3 feet, it’s billed as the shortest covered bridge in the U.S. Or the shortest in Ohio, by some accounts.
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.
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