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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bridges. (search)
Bridges. The most notable ones in United States history are: Arch bridges. St. Louis Bridge across the Mississippi at St. Louis, Mo.; three arches formed of tubes of cast-steel, and built out from the piers without scaffolding: the centre span, 520 feet; the others. 502 feet each; 2,200 tons of steel and 3,400 tons of iron were used in its construction. Built by Col. James B. Eads at a cost of $10,000,000. Begun 1867, and completed July 4. 1874. High Bridge, across the Harlem River, in New York City; built to carry the Croton aqueduct across the river. It consists of thirteen arches, and is 1,460 feet long. Washington Bridge, across the Harlem River. just north of High Bridge; consists of nine arches, three of granite on the east side, four of granite on the west, and two steel arches spanning the river. This bridge is 2,400 feet long and 80 feet wide; completed in 1888. Suspension bridges. Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge, across the gorge, 2 miles below the
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
servitude inveigled or kidnapped foreigners......June 23, 1874 First session adjourns......June 23, 1874 Postmaster-Gen. A. J. Creswell resigns......June 24, 1874 Great distress in Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska by the grasshopper plague......July–October, 1874 Mysterious abduction of Charley Ross, aged four years, from his father's home in Germantown, Pa. (never found)......July 1, 1874 Illinois and St. Louis railroad bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis opened......July 4, 1874 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher demands an investigation of Theodore Tilton's charges against him......July 7, 1874 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher acquitted by a committee of his church......Aug. 28, 1874 Headquarters of the United States army removed to St. Louis......Oct. 1, 1874 Lincoln monument at Springfield, Ill., dedicated......Oct. 15, 1874 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organized at Cleveland, O.......Nov. 19, 1874 Second session opens......Dec. 7, 1874 Preside
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Missouri, (search)
der notes......Feb. 8, 1872 Seventy or eighty masked men stop a railroad train at Gun City, Cass county, and murder Judge J. C. Stephenson, Thomas E. Detro, and James C. Cline, charged with complicity in the fraudulent issue of railroad bonds, which imposed a heavy burden upon the tax-payers in that county......April 24, 1872 Railroad bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis, designed by James B. Eads and constructed by the Illinois and St. Louis Bridge Company, formally opened......July 4, 1874 State railroad commission created by act of legislature......March 27, 1875 Ordinance passed by legislature to prevent the payment of 1,918 bonds and coupons of $1,000 each, executed by the Pacific Railroad of Missouri under a law of Dec. 10, 1855, which had disappeared, but had not been cancelled or destroyed......Oct. 30, 1875 New constitution framed by a State convention which sat at Jefferson City, May 5, 1875, to Aug. 19, is submitted to the people and ratified by a vote o