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He found that “…the old wooden covered bridge across the Cheat River looks hardly a day older, and is still elaborately decorated with soldiers’ names carven with jack-knives.” [3] The current bridge along the route of the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike is a steel truss bridge built in 1912 by the Canton Bridge Company.
The Cheat River is a 78.3-mile-long (126.0 km) [5] tributary of the Monongahela River in eastern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in the United States. Via the Ohio River , the Cheat and Monongahela are part of the Mississippi River watershed .
Cheat River Covered Bridge (aka Northwestern Turnpike, or Tygart Valley, Bridge), 1835, across Cheat River near Rowlesburg (Burnt, 1964) Randolph County. Beverly Covered Bridge, 1845, Chenoweth's first bridge (destroyed ca. 1863); part of the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike; rebuilt by Chenoweth (1872–73; destroyed again after 1952).
The crown jewel in West Virginia’s crown, this national park is more than 70,000 acres of land snaking alongside the New River. There’s much to do and explore here—rafting, kayaking, rock ...
The river then flows generally north-northeastwardly through Randolph and Tucker Counties, where its valley is the trough between Cheat Mountain (to the west) and Shavers Mountain (to the east). Settlements along its course include Cheat Bridge, Bemis, Bowden, and Porterwood. The "High Falls of Cheat" (15 feet [4.6 m] high) is a few miles ...
Big Sandy Creek is a 31.3-mile-long (50.4 km) [3] mountain stream which begins in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and flows into Preston County, West Virginia, in the United States. The Big Sandy flows through Bruceton Mills and Rockville, West Virginia , before crashing down the mountainside and reaching its confluence with the Cheat River at ...
Cheat Bridge, West Virginia; Clifford Hollow Bridge; E. East Huntington Bridge; F. ... Market Street Bridge (Ohio River) Memorial Bridge (Parkersburg, West Virginia)
Jan. 12—Several drivers were left feeling a little flat Friday morning after a protruding piece of the Interstate 68 bridge crossing Cheat Lake punctured the tires of multiple vehicles traveling ...