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Patent image for Marsh's Reinforced Arch Bridge Brush Creek Bridge. James Barney Marsh (April 12, 1856 – June 26, 1936) was an American engineer and bridge designer. He patented a new design for arch bridges. Marsh gave Archie Alexander, the first African-American to graduate as an engineer from Iowa State University, his first job.
On January 7, 1924, Mebane's commissioners voted to contract the Luten Bridge Company of Knoxville, Tennessee for $39,670 to "furnish material for and to construct complete and ready for traffic, a reinforced concrete bridge over Dan River, near Fishing Creek, of three arches 105'0" each with 18'0" roadway". [11]
In the 1850s, Zimri Wall (October 12, 1836-n.a.) began building bridges in Clinton County, Ohio. [1] In 1860, he built a number of timber bridges in Clinton County. [2] He established the Zimri Wall Company, and in 1871, he went into partnership with his brother as the Z. & J. Wall and Company.
The Grassy Creek Bridge project was listed as no. 1 on the Roads & Bridges 2013 Top 10 Bridges list. [ 5 ] With a construction cost of approximately $100 million, [ 3 ] the bridge was completed in September 2015 [ 2 ] and became the tallest and highest in the state, but was dubbed a " bridge to nowhere " as the highway leading to it remained ...
C.C. Myers, Inc. was a Rancho Cordova, California based construction company specializing in building highways and bridges. Started in 1977 by Clinton C. Myers, the company re-formed as an Employee Owned Venture in 2008, or ESOP company.
Dunlap's Creek Bridge is the first arch bridge in the United States built of cast iron. It was designed by Richard Delafield and built by the United States Army Corps of Engineers . [ 4 ] Constructed from 1836 to 1839 on the National Road in Brownsville, Pennsylvania , it remains in use today.
Smith Covered Bridge in Rush County, with the trademark signature of a Kennedy bridge The Richland-Plummer Creek Bridge near Bloomfield in Greene County.. Archibald McMichael Kennedy (August 25, 1818 in Guilford County, North Carolina – June 3, 1897 in Rush County, Indiana) was a carpenter and builder of covered bridges from Rush County, Indiana, United States. [1]
The Locate Creek Bridge, located on N. Locate Rd. near Miles City, Montana, is a historic bridge that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is significant as the oldest steel stringer bridge in the state of Montana. [2] It was built in 1901 by Custer County. The bridge was part of a Custer County program to build bridges to ...