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NRHP reference No. 78002751 [1] Added to NRHP. December 14, 1978. The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, or Ballard Locks, is a complex of locks at the west end of Salmon Bay in Seattle, Washington's Lake Washington Ship Canal, between the neighborhoods of Ballard to the north and Magnolia to the south. [2]: 2 [3][4]: 6.
The Salmon Bay Bridge, also known as Bridge 6.3 on the BNSF railroad, [ 4] formerly Bridge No. 4 on the Great Northern Railroad, [ 5] is a Strauss Heel-trunnion single-leaf bascule bridge spanning Salmon Bay and connecting Magnolia / Interbay to Ballard in Seattle, Washington. The bridge is located just west of Commodore Park.
The new Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier was built 1,130 feet (340 m) out over the Gulf of Mexico waters. It had its "soft" opening on May 25, 2012. [6] The new pier complex is located where the original Pleasure Pier stood from 1943 until 1961, when it was destroyed by Hurricane Carla. The original Pleasure Pier featured rides, an ...
A barge slammed into a bridge in Galveston on Wednesday, spilling oil into the bay and forcing a shutdown of the Texas span, officials said, in the latest accident involving prominent U.S ...
San Luis Pass is a passage of water on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States. It connects the sheltered waters of West Bay to the open Gulf of Mexico between Galveston Island and San Luis Island. Fishermen and swimmers have been killed in the Pass' treacherous waters. [2][3] The Gulf of Mexico-West Bay pass transitions vast volumes of seawater.
A bridge near Galveston, Texas, that was damaged last week when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat has reopened to vehicle and pedestrian traffic after safety inspections deemed it ...
The closures will allow crews to replace worn expansion joints as part of the ongoing 15th Ave. W./N.W. and Ballard Bridge Paving and Safety Project. The first closure begins this Friday evening ...
July 16, 1982. Location. The Ballard Bridge, also known as the 15th Avenue Bridge, is a double-leaf bascule bridge in Seattle, Washington. It carries 15th Avenue NW over Seattle's Salmon Bay between Ballard to the north and Interbay to the south. The Ballard Bridge follows the Fremont Bridge in the east in the succession of bridges spanning the ...