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Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Bridge in Athens Township: 1913 June 22, 1988 removed August 22, 2012: Athens: Bradford: Pennsylvania (petit) truss Highway Bridges Owned by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation TR
This new bridge type, wooden with a covered span, was developed because traditional European methods, typically stone bridges, were not appropriate for the harsh Pennsylvania winters. Many of the bridges were named for pioneer families residing near the bridges. [2] Some people call Pennsylvania the "Covered Bridge Capital of the Nation". [2]
Girard Point Bridge: I-95: Mud Island, Southwest Philadelphia and South Philadelphia 1973 Double-deck bridge; upper deck southbound George C. Platt Bridge: PA 291: 1949 Through truss bridge
Pennsylvania Route 88 (PA 88) is a 68-mile-long (109 km) north–south state highway located in southwestern Pennsylvania. The southern terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 119 (US 119) in Point Marion less than 2 miles (3 km) from the Pennsylvania- West Virginia border.
The Belenski most (Беленски мост) or Byala Bridge is an arch bridge over the Yantra River in northern Bulgaria, 1 km from the town of Byala in Ruse Province, whose name it carries. It is regarded as one of the prominent achievements of Bulgarian National Revival engineering and architecture.
On March 10, 1683, the Pennsylvania General Assembly passed a law requiring the building of bridges across all of the rivers and creeks along all of the King's Highway in Pennsylvania, from the Falls of the Delaware (at Trenton, N.J.) to the southernmost ports of Sussex County (now part of the state of Delaware). The bridges, which were to be ...
Construction on the bridge began in May 1912 by excavating all 11 bridge piers to bedrock, which was up to 138 feet (42 m) below ground. In total, excavation for the viaduct removed 13,318,000 cubic yards (10,182,000 m 3) of material, more than half of that rock. Almost half of the bulk of the bridge is underground.
Built in 1929, Tilghman Street Bridge, which crosses the Lehigh River in Allentown's east-side, is the oldest bridge on SR 1002. A 1939 map of Tilghman Street. When the state began taking over Pennsylvania highways following passage of the Sproul Road Bill, signed May 31, 1911, [5] this system did not include the direct Allentown to Harrisburg route to which Interstate 78 belonged.