- Silver Bridge - Wikipedia
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
- Silver Bridge - WV Department of Transportation
A two-lane, 1760-foot-long eyebar suspension bridge with a 700-foot main span 102 feet above the bottom of the Ohio River channel and two 380-foot anchor spans, it was completed in one year, opening to traffic on Memorial Day 1928
- Inside The Silver Bridge Collapse That Killed 46 People - All Thats . . .
About a week before Christmas 1967, rush hour traffic crawled across the Silver Bridge that connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and Gallipolis, Ohio Dozens of cars sat bumper-to-bumper on the structure Then, without warning, the Silver Bridge collapsed into the Ohio River
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