Chain Bridge (Potomac River)
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The Chain Bridge is a viaduct that crosses the Potomac River at Little Falls in Washington, D.C., and Arlington County, Virginia, United States. The steel girder bridge carries close to 22,000 cars a
Chain Bridge viewed Arlington with Washington D.C. visible on the distant shore in October 2016
An 1839 illustration of the fourth Chain Bridge
Chain Bridge during American Civil War
The seventh Chain Bridge in 1920
Chain bridge
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A chain bridge is a historic form of suspension bridge for which chains or eyebars were used instead of wire ropes to carry the bridge deck, and sometimes to support the deck itself. A famous example
Chain Bridge (Potomac River)
…County with water from the Washington Aqueduct. The bridge is the eighth at the site, with the first opening in 1797. The third and fourth versions were chain suspension bridges, and the name was retained for subsequent bridges even though they were of different types. The current bridge's deck was constructed in 1932, atop…
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