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  2. Chain Bridge (Potomac River) - Wikipedia

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    An 1839 illustration of Chain Bridge Chain Bridge during American Civil War The underside of Chain Bridge Chain Bridge crossing the Potomac River. The first bridge at the location opened on July 3, 1797. It was a wooden covered bridge, and rotted and collapsed in 1804. [3] [4] The second bridge, of similar type, burned six months after it was ...

  3. List of crossings of the Potomac River - Wikipedia

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    I-81 Potomac River Bridge I-81: Falling Waters / Williamsport Railroad Bridge ... Chain Bridge: SR 123 Clara Barton Parkway: Arlington / Washington, D.C.

  4. Portal:American Civil War/Intro/images - Wikipedia

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    Images to be 200 or 160px, landscape format ... Chain Bridge (Potomac River) Washington D.C.'s chain bridge across the Potomac River. Portal:American Civil War/Intro ...

  5. James Finley (engineer) - Wikipedia

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    Potomac River, 1807, 39 metre span Chain Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill , Philadelphia , 1808; 2 spans, eastern span 60.96 metre (200 ft), western span about 30.48 metre (100 ft); collapsed January 1816 under a heavy weight of snow.

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in western ...

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    Roughly, south side of the Potomac River from American Legion to Memorial Bridge and north side from Brickyard Rd. to Chain Bridge 38°56′00″N 77°06′49″W  /  38.933333°N 77.113611°W  / 38.933333; -77.113611  ( George Washington Memorial

  7. Category:Bridges over the Potomac River - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Bridges over the Potomac River" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... Chain Bridge (Potomac River) Construction of ...

  8. Chain Bridge - Wikipedia

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    Chain Bridge (Potomac River) a bridge at the Little Falls of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. (completed 1808) Chain Bridge (Massachusetts), a bridge which crosses the Merrimack River, connecting Amesbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts (completed 1810)

  9. Potomac River - Wikipedia

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    The Potomac River surges over the deck of Chain Bridge during the historic 1936 flood. The bridge was so severely damaged by the raging water, and the debris it carried, that its superstructure had to be re-built; the new bridge was opened to traffic in 1939. (This photograph was taken from a vantage point on Glebe Road in Arlington County ...