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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. On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed amid heavy rush-hour traffic ...
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 ...
The Mothman Prophecies (2002) – A film inspired by Keel's book. Mothman (2010) – A Syfy TV movie. 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 Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore brings to mind several bridge collapses in Ohio, some with fatalities.
Total collapse The Mill Point Bridge is 3 miles (4.8 km) upstream from the Thruway bridge that collapsed on 5 April. Flood waters from the same flood that finally undermined the Thruway bridge were up to the girders of the Mill Point bridge. It was closed as a safety precaution. It collapsed six days after the earlier collapse. [40] Glanrhyd Bridge
Silver_Bridge_collapsed,_Ohio_side.jpg (231 × 166 pixels, file size: 19 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. . Photograph of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, following its collapse in 1967
BALTIMORE — The wife of one of the construction workers who survived the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse says it’s a miracle he is alive as he doesn’t know how to swim.
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.