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The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 which carried U.S. Route 35 over the Ohio River, connecting Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio. Officially named the Point Pleasant Bridge , [ 1 ] it was popularly known as the Silver Bridge for the color of its aluminum paint.
Prior to 1969, the route that is now WV 817 was numbered as the original West Virginia Route 17. Following the collapse of the Silver Bridge at Point Pleasant, a new bridge (the Silver Memorial Bridge) was built to carry U.S. Route 35 across the Ohio River. The new bridge was built slightly downstream, now south of the mouth of the Kanawha ...
The town of Point Pleasant was built on the site of the original fort, and so the rebuilt fort was located nearby. Point Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of Mason County, West Virginia, United States, [6] at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The population was 4,101 at the 2020 census. [3]
The Mothman of Point Pleasant (2017) – A documentary. The Mothman Menace (2023) – A fictionalized account of the Silver Bridge collapse and other historical events from 1960s' Point Pleasant, WV. Craig McDonald, author. The Mothman Revisited (2024) - Volume 4, Episode 5 of Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia 39°19′27″N 77°43′43″W / 39.32417°N 77.72861°W / 39.32417; -77.72861 ( B & O Railroad Potomac River Jefferson
Maryland - Springfield - Capon Bridge: WV Route 28, Springfield Grade Road: Cedar Creek and Opequon Turnpike: March 24, 1851: Winchester - Marlboro: Cedar Creek Grade Charleston and Point Pleasant Turnpike: Charleston - Point Pleasant: WV Route 25, WV Route 62: Charleston and Ravenswood Turnpike: Charleston - Ripley - Ravenswood: Old U.S. Route ...
Bartow Jones Bridge WV 2: Henderson–Point Pleasant: 1999 [1: Replaced Shadle Bridge built in 1930 [2] CSX Transportation Ohio River Subdivision: 1947 [3] Replaced earlier bridge opened in 1888 [3] Putnam County; Johnathon David Higginbotham Memorial Bridge WV 869
Up until the late 1960s, WV 62 was designated as U.S. Route 35 from Dunbar to Point Pleasant, crossing the Silver Bridge into Gallipolis, Ohio. After the Silver Bridge collapsed in 1967 (necessitating the building of a new bridge, the Silver Memorial Bridge —finished in 1969), US 35 was moved to the south bank (replacing the former WV 17) of ...