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The Wheeling Suspension Bridge
1849
Wheeling, West Virginia
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Charles Ellet hung a thousand feet of roadway over the Ohio in 1849, the longest clear span anywhere, and Pittsburgh sued to have it torn down for blocking its steamboats. The Supreme Court agreed, Congress overruled the court by declaring the bridge a post road, and then a windstorm wrecked it in 1854 anyway. Rebuilt, it is the oldest vehicular suspension bridge still standing in the country.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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