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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.
SCC caused the catastrophic collapse of the Silver Bridge in December 1967, when an eyebar suspension bridge across the Ohio River at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, suddenly failed. The main chain joint failed and the entire structure fell into the river, killing 46 people who were traveling in vehicles across the bridge.
U.S. Route 35 US 35 in red, US 35 Bus. in blue Route information Length 417.73 mi [a] (672.27 km) Major junctions South end I-64 / CR 33 in Teays Valley, WV Major intersections SR 32 / SR 124 in Jackson, OH US 23 in Chillicothe, OH SR 159 in Chillicothe, OH SR 104 in Chillicothe, OH I-71 near Jeffersonville, OH I-675 in Beavercreek, OH I-75 / SR 4 in Dayton, OH I-70 near Richmond, IN I-69 near ...
Up until the late 1960s, WV 62 was designated as U.S. Route 35 from Dunbar to Point Pleasant, crossing the Silver Bridge into Gallipolis, Ohio. After the Silver Bridge collapsed in 1967 (necessitating the building of a new bridge, the Silver Memorial Bridge —finished in 1969), US 35 was moved to the south bank (replacing the former WV 17) of ...
The Willow Island disaster was the collapse of a cooling tower under construction at the Pleasants Power Station at Willow Island, West Virginia, on April 27, 1978. Fifty-one construction workers were killed. It is thought to be the deadliest construction accident in U.S. history.
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The town of Point Pleasant was built on the site of the original fort, and so the rebuilt fort was located nearby. Point Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of Mason County, West Virginia, United States, [6] at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The population was 4,101 at the 2020 census. [3]
Prior to 1969, the route that is now WV 817 was numbered as the original West Virginia Route 17. Following the collapse of the Silver Bridge at Point Pleasant, a new bridge (the Silver Memorial Bridge) was built to carry U.S. Route 35 across the Ohio River. The new bridge was built slightly downstream, now south of the mouth of the Kanawha ...