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They named the island Figure Eight to indicate Rich's Inlet Creek's crooked paths in the marsh. At this time, the only way to access the island was by boat, so the Island Development Company approached Champion Davis, owner of the marshland off Porters Neck, on acquiring more land to build a bridge to the island from the mainland. Davis turned ...
Benjamin Franklin Mebane Jr. was an industrialist who built several textile mills in northern Rockingham County, North Carolina in the late 1800s and early 1900s. [1] In the early 1920s, he decided to construct a chemical plant in "the Meadows", a large tract of land his Spray Water Power and Land Company owned between Spray and Draper, cut off from the towns by the Dan River.
NC-38: Berry Hill Bridge Replaced Parker truss: 1914 1985 SR 1761 and SR 880: Dan River: Eden, North Carolina, and Cascade, Virginia: Rockingham County, North Carolina, and Pittsylvania County, Virginia: NC-39: North Carolina Route 1417 Bridge Abandoned
Scuppernong River Bridge: 1926, 1927 1992-03-05 Columbia: Tyrrell: Warren ponytruss swing span Skeen's Mill Covered Bridge: 1885–1900 1972-01-20 Flint Hill: Randolph: Town lattice-truss/queenpost Southern Railway Company Overhead Bridge: 1919 2007-04-19
There are only three authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of North Carolina of which one is historic. [1] A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction. An authentic bridge is constructed using trusses rather than other methods such as stringers, a popular choice for non-authentic covered bridges.
In Southport, North Carolina, which received some 23 inches in 48 hours, the realities of the storm played out in real-time. During AccuWeather's live broadcast, ve
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The Herbert C. Bonner Bridge was a two-lane automobile bridge spanning the Oregon Inlet, between Bodie Island from Pea Island, in Dare County, North Carolina. The bridge carried NC 12 and was utilized by local and seasonal tourist traffic. The 2.7-mile (4.3 km) bridge was built in 1963 and was dedicated to Herbert C. Bonner. [4]