Look at the beautiful detail on this stately home. Note all the detail, the round turret, the bannisters and columns, that second floor porch, and all the many doodads that its carpenters completed. Your job: tell us where this home is located. Send your guess to ebrack2@gmail.com, and include your hometown.
In the last issue, the beautiful photography of the New River Gorge Bridge in West Virginia came from Bruce Johnson of Lawrenceville. As Holly Moore of Suwanee says: “This is the longest steel span bridge in the Western Hemisphere and the third highest in the United States, towering 876 feet above the New River. Normally closed to foot traffic, on the third Saturday of October, the bridge opens to thrill seekers bungee jumping, rappelling, and simply walking the span are allowed on this day.”
Recognizing the last mystery were Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Matt Willis, Lawrenceville; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Howard Hoffman, Berkeley Lake; Stew Ogilvie, Rehobeth, Ala.; Molly Titus, Peachtree Corners; and Ann Mitchell of Dacula, who says, “I have just been working on trip plans to the New River Gorge and West Virginia. It’s beautiful!”
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, gave more details: “Construction of the bridge began in June 1974, and was completed on October 22, 1977. The overall length of this single-span, steel-arched bridge is 3,030 feet long and rises 876 feet above the river. The arch is 1,700 feet long, which at the time of its opening, meant that the Gorge Bridge was both the longest and the highest single-span bridge in the world. Today, it is still an impressive structure since it is still the longest, single-span bridge in the western hemisphere, the third highest in the United States, and fifth longest in the world. It was then, and still is now, an important means of traversing the wide and deep river gorge in the area. Before the bridge opened, it would take travelers almost 45 minutes to drive along a number of interconnecting, winding and often treacherous roads to cross the gorge. After opening, it reduced the travel time to only 45 seconds!”
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