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In August 1867 the Liverpool Porcupine described the tunnels as being "a great nuisance" because drains ran straight into them, in one place creating a cess pool full of offensive water 15 feet (5 m) deep, and they were being used for dumping refuse, [7] including down chutes built into the buildings above for the purpose.
Hempfield Viaduct & Tunnel No. 1 (abandoned) 1974 Former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad: Wheeling Creek: Wheeling: Ohio: WV-93: Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, Great Bend Tunnel: 1872 Chesapeake and Ohio Railway: Talcott: Summers
"The View from the Border: West Virginia Republicans and Women's Rights in the Age of Emancipation," West Virginia History, Spring2009, Vol. 3 Issue 1, pp 57–80, 1861–1870 era; Gerofsky, Milton. "Reconstruction in West Virginia, Part I and II," West Virginia History 6 (July 1945); Part I, 295–360, 7 (October 1945): Part II, 5–39, Link ...
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Joseph Williamson (10 March 1769 – 1 May 1840) was an eccentric English businessman, philanthropist and property owner who is best known for the Williamson Tunnels, which were constructed under his direction in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool, England.
Dangerous rock conditions at the east end of the tunnel and accidents with black powder caused many casualties, with a total of about 30 deaths and 300 injuries in the excavation of the Kingwood Tunnel and the contemporaneous Board Tree Tunnel on the same line. [1] The west portal of the original tunnel in 1974
The northern 51% of the tunnel is in West Virginia and the southern 49% in Virginia; Virginia shared the cost of the project. [ 2 ] Before the opening of the East River Mountain Tunnel, travelers wishing to cross the state line had to navigate the narrow, twisting, guardrail-less route of US 52 up and over the mountain (now designated as SR 598 ...
Construction of the Memorial Tunnel began in 1952. [3] It opened to traffic on November 8, 1954, [1] at a final cost of $5 million. [4] Its construction required moving 91,000 cubic yards (70,000 m 3) of earth, and it was the first tunnel in the nation to have closed-circuit television monitoring.