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Crossing Carries or connects Location Built Length Notes Coordinates Charlestown Bridge: Route 99 (N. Washington St) Boston to Charlestown: 1900 331.9 meters (1,089 ft) The MBTA Orange Line used this bridge, before the upstream tunnel was completed in 1975. Site of a ferry established in 1630; obsoleted by the Charles River Bridge, built 1786
KY 627. Winchester and Boonesborough. Ford L&N Bridge (closed) L&N Kentucky River Bridge. CSX Transportation. Joseph Proctor Memorial Bridge. KY 499. Irvine and West Irvine. Captain Zachary Chase Clevenger Memorial Bridge.
Devil's Backbone is a rock formation and peninsula formed by the flow of Fourteen Mile Creek into the Ohio River, and is currently situated in Charlestown State Park near Charlestown, Indiana and across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. According to local legend, on this bedrock ridge once stood a stone fortress that was built by Welsh ...
He began his tour of the Southern United States in March 1825, arriving at the Fort Mitchell, Alabama crossing of the Chattahoochee River on March 31. A lighthouse clock made by Simon Willard to commemorate Lafayette's visit to the White House 1824. July 13 – Lafayette leaves France on the Cadmus; August 15 – Arrives at Staten Island, New York
20th-century depiction of Revere's ride. Paul Revere's Midnight Ride was an alert given to minutemen in the Province of Massachusetts Bay by local Patriots on the night of April 18, 1775, warning them of the approach of British Army troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord. In the preceding weeks, Patriots in the region gained wind ...
Charlestown Bridge. / 42.36889°N 71.06000°W / 42.36889; -71.06000. The Charlestown Bridge, officially named the North Washington Street Bridge, is located in Boston and spans the Charles River. As the river's easternmost crossing, the bridge connects the neighborhoods of Charlestown and the North End. Completed in 1900 and given its ...
A view of the Ohio River from Charlestown State Park. The land where the park sits is steeped in history. Back in 2006, workers at the park were building a new boat ramp when a Native American ...
List of crossings of the Cumberland River. This is a complete list of current bridges and other crossings of the Cumberland River from the Ohio River near Smithland upstream through northern Tennessee to the split into Martin's Fork and the Poor Fork near Baxter, in Harlan County, Kentucky .