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The HistoricBridges.org Team: Nathan Holth - Author, Webmaster, and Photographer. Rick McOmber - Photographer and Content Advisor. Luke Gordon - Engineering / Construction Consultant and Photographer. |
Formerly Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere, Historicbridges.org offers
professional photo-documentation, information, and advocacy for
all types of historic bridges except covered bridges. North
American coverage radiates outward from Michigan, with
Pennsylvania, Chicago, and Ontario being coverage highlights as
well. HistoricBridges.org places an unparalleled priority on
professional photo-documentation of each bridge presented. In addition,
HistoricBridges.org strongly advocates for the reform of surface
transportation policy and fights to increase awareness of the
feasibility of historic bridge preservation. Click Here For The Latest Website Update (9-1-10). |
Historicbridges.org Features
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Featuring historic bridge photo-documentation and information, the Bridge Browser is the main feature on this website. The map shown here is an interactive clickable map that allows you to access the bridges on this website. Places listed in blue text have bridges available. BridgeSeek, an advanced search tool, is also available. Also, a standalone version of the Bridge Browser is available. |
Bridge Spotlight:Approximate Time Remaining Until All United States Historic Metal Truss Bridges Not Preserved Are Demolished: Seneca Bridge
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Informative presentations designed to introduce viewers to the world of historic bridges. Utilizing photos and diagrams, the various terminology, construction, and configuration of historic bridges is discussed. A presentation on inspecting historic bridges is also available. This page also features some formal, yet easy-to-read, essays that further explore the historic bridge world. |
Historic Bridges Encyclopedia
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This feature contains articles relating
to historic bridges, as well as information about entire categories
of historic bridges. This section also includes some non-bridge
related photos. Some of the major features include: - An all-in-one collection of some of the best bridge photos available in wallpaper size. - A look at historic metal water towers, which share a lot of design characteristics with truss bridges. - A collection of interesting photos of the natural world. - An in-depth look at curved chord through girder bridges. |
Historic Bridge Park: A Visitor's Guide
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A comprehensive visitor's guide to this unique park located in Calhoun County, Michigan whose focus is the restored metal truss bridges within the park. Contains maps, photos, and links to bridge browser pages for the historic bridges within the park. |
Turning the Tide
A Campaign For Change: A Future For Historic Bridges
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Your help is needed! Help an important piece of historic bridge legislation revised and passed in 2007 to increase historic bridge preservation: A guide to write letters to U.S. government officials and legislators. These proposed changes did not pass in 2006 because the government felt that not enough citizens had spoken up in favor of historic bridges. Help change that! |
Historic Bridge Newsroom: Twitter
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Presented through the convenient format of Twitter, the Historic Bridge Newsroom is a simple collection of links to current news articles about historic bridges, as well as word-of-mouth news snippets. Coverage includes any historic bridges in the United States and Canada, which may or may not be in the Bridge Browser. This is a human-edited list of links; therefore coverage may be biased to the areas that those team members who maintain it are familiar with. |
Links to Related Websites
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Features a collection of external links to other bridge websites on the Internet. Many other bridge enthusiast websites feature bridges from areas not covered by this website, and links to those websites can be found here. |
News and Updates
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want you to stand up and speak up for historic bridges. Yes, you! From the creation of this website in 2003, we have never placed advertisements on this website, nor have we asked for donations from website visitors to cover the costs and immense time/effort required to keep this website available for you, nor we do not intend to do this in the future. Instead, we ask you to consider supporting this website by contacting someone, such as your legislators (local, state, and federal) and/or the Obama administration and expressing support for historic bridges. Also consider a short note to recovery.gov expressing concern over the use of this funding to destroy historic bridges, and request that they support and protect historic bridges. A simple email telling them that you like historic bridges and want to see them preserved instead of demolished is all that is needed. Alternatively, you can get technical in your emails/letters if you wish and if you do, Turning the Tide may be of help. It is not hard to send an email. Support this website by supporting historic bridges. Email government officials in support of historic bridges today! As mentioned earlier, we do not seek donations for the operation of HistoricBridges.org, nor do we feature advertisements in our content. However if you are interested in helping the cause of historic bridges by financial means, we strongly suggest a tax-deductable donation to the Historic Bridge Foundation. If you have any questions about why a donation to the Historic Bridge Foundation is worthwhile, feel free to contact HistoricBridges.org. Alternatively, learn more about the Historic Bridge Foundation at their website www.historicbridgefoundation.com. |
Website UpdatesSeptember 1, 2010 - HistoricBridges.org Debut's HD Video for Historic BridgesYesterday was a dark day for historic bridges, since the historic Tuscumbia Bridge in Missouri was demolished by implosion. However out of the ashes of this tragedy HistoricBridges.org is able to offer a preview test run of a new feature that will eventually be offered on many bridge pages, which is professional grade HD video. HistoricBridges.org was the first of the major historic bridge websites on the Internet to offer historic bridge videos. Today, HistoricBridges.org is proud to continue leading the way by becoming the first historic bridge website to host streaming and downloadable high definition video for historic bridges. As always, our videos are hosted and served right here on HistoricBridges.org so you will not have to deal with the clutter and advertising often associated with viewing video on video databases like YouTube. Unfortunately, the first video we are offering is actually the demolition of the Tuscumbia Bridge, taken by MoDOT. However, while we continue to carefully process our first in-house, genuine HD videos (taken in Pennsylvania during Historic Bridge Weekend with a professional grade HD video camera), this video offered a unique opportunity to reprogram the website to support HD video and to test the system. Some bugs are still being worked out, particularly with the downloadable high quality video. However, hopefully you enjoy this preview of technology to come on HistoricBridges.org. Along with the added HD video, the Tuscumbia Bridge page itself has been rennovated, and additional photos added too. Links are below. August 30, 2010 - Pages UpdatedLarge photo galleries have been added for the following bridge pages, which are also now upgraded to the new "dynamic" page design HistoricBridges.org uses for all new pages.
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