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Silver Bridge. 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.
The Mothman Legacy is a 2020 American documentary film about the Mothman, a purported humanoid creature known for allegedly being sighted in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, in the 1960s. Directed and edited by Seth Breedlove, the film is a direct sequel to the 2017 documentary The Mothman of Point Pleasant and a follow-up to the 2019 documentary ...
The Mothman of Point Pleasant (2017) – A documentary. The Mothman Menace (2023) – A fictionalized account of the Silver Bridge collapse and other historical events from 1960s' Point Pleasant, WV. Craig McDonald, author. The Mothman Revisited (2024) - Volume 4, Episode 5 of Unsolved Mysteries on Netflix
In the 1920s, WV 62 was designated West Virginia Route 19. 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 ...
Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, which collapsed into the Ohio River on December 15, 1967, killing 46 people. The Silver Bridge at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, collapsed into the river on December 15, 1967. The collapse killed 46 people who had been crossing when the bridge failed.
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] It is the principal city of the Point Pleasant micropolitan area extending into Ohio.
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 ...
Coordinates: 38°50′46″N 82°08′29″W. The bridge in 2022. Southern side of the bridge. Aerial view of the bridge (right) in 2019. The Point Pleasant Rail Bridge is a truss bridge that carries the West Virginia Secondary over the Ohio River between Gallia County, Ohio and Point Pleasant, West Virginia. At the present time, the bridge is ...