Yardley Wilburtha Bridge

Herausgegeben:Surhone, Lambert M.; Tennoe, Mariam T.; Henssonow, Susan F.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Yardley-Wilburtha Bridge was a bridge spanning the Delaware River that was destroyed in 1961. The first structure located at the site of the now demolished Yardley-Wilburtha Bridge was built in 1835 by the Yardleyville-Delaware Bridge Company. It was originally a wooden toll bridge that connected the borough of Yardleyville (known today as Yardley) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and the community of Greensburg (known today as Wilburtha), in Ewing Township, in Mercer County, New Jersey. The bridge, which was built on stone foundations, measured 903 feet long and had six spans. Little more than five years after having been built, the original bridge was damaged in a flood on January 8, 1841. Three of its spans were swept away, and it was replaced with another wooden bridge. For the next sixty years, the replacement bridge operated profitably and was eventually renamed the Yardley-Wilburtha Bridge when the two communities it connected were renamed.

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• Verlag: Betascript Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9786131309397
• ISBN-10: 6131309396
• Artikelnr.: 30174741