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[1] [11] Known as the Potomac River Bridge when opened in December 1940, the bridge was renamed in 1967 for Harry W. Nice (1877–1941) who served as governor of Maryland from 1935 to 1939. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] The bridge was the first south of Washington, D.C. to provide a highway link between Maryland and Virginia.
I-81 Potomac River Bridge I-81: Falling Waters / Williamsport Railroad Bridge Berkeley County / Williamsport James Rumsey Bridge WV 480 MD 34: Shepherdstown / Washington County: Shepherdstown Railroad Bridge Norfolk Southern: Shepherdstown / Washington County Old B&O Mainline Bridge: CSX Cumberland Subdivision: Harper's Ferry / Washington County
The first section of Canal Parkway to be built was the reconstruction of Ford Avenue from the West Virginia state line to River Avenue. A new bridge over the North Branch Potomac River was completed in 1992. [12] A new bridge over the C&O Canal was completed in 1997, eliminating an at-grade crossing of the highway and the C&O Canal towpath. [13]
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The new railroad bridge towers over Magnolia at a 50 ft (15 m) elevation. The bridge has six 100 ft (30 m), three 80 ft (24 m), and two 75 ft (23 m) deck plate girder spans. At a length of about 1,000 feet (300 m) long with 10 reinforced concrete piers, this is the smaller of the two bridges built for the Magnolia Cutoff.
The Potomac River surges over the deck of Chain Bridge during the historic 1936 flood. The bridge was so severely damaged by the raging water, and the debris it carried, that its superstructure had to be re-built; the new bridge was opened to traffic in 1939. (This photograph was taken from a vantage point on Glebe Road in Arlington County ...
Opequon Creek bridge near Martinsburg, WV. Opequon Creek (historically also Opecken [1]) is an approximately 35 mile [2] tributary stream of the Potomac River.It flows into the Potomac northeast of Martinsburg in Berkeley County, West Virginia, and its source lies northwest of the community of Opequon at the foot of Great North Mountain in Frederick County, Virginia.
Built in 1836–1837, the B&O's first crossing over the Potomac was an 830-foot (250 m) covered wood truss. [2] It was the only rail crossing of the Potomac River until after the American Civil War. The single-track bridge, composed of six river spans plus a span over the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, was designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe, II.