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    Chain Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill was an 1808 iron-chain suspension bridge built across the Schuylkill River, north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Designed...
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  • suspension bridge in the world. The Chain Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill, an iron-chain suspension bridge designed by James Finley, was built at Falls of Schuylkill...
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    Finley's nearby Chain Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill (1808). The footbridge's span was 124 m, although its deck was only 0.45 m wide. Development of wire-cable...
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    Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill (collapsed 1816), was built at this location. That was replaced by an 1818 covered bridge, built on the chain bridge's abutments...
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  • (21 m) span, and a width of 12 feet 6 inches (3.81 m). He used a similar design for his Chain Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill in 1808, and secured a patent...
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    James Finley (engineer) (category American bridge engineers)
    Demolished around 1818.: 8–9  Potomac River, 1807, 39 metre span Chain Bridge at Falls of Schuylkill, Philadelphia, 1808; 2 spans, eastern span 60.96 metre (200 ft)...
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  • Railroad Old Bridge over Standing Stone Creek, Huntingdon Poquessing Creek Bridge, Philadelphia/Andalusia Schuylkill Arsenal Railroad Bridge, Philadelphia...
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    a wire mill, foundry and nail factory at the Falls of the Schuylkill, needed energy. After learning the value of anthracite during the British blockades...
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    two-track bridge replaced with a single-track bridge in 2003) Pennsylvania Railroad's South Philadelphia Branch Bridge over the Schuylkill River, Philadelphia...
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    built the first (temporary) wire suspension bridge 120 metres (400 ft) over the Falls of the Schuylkill using trees and tall buildings near the river...
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    the Schuylkill River Trail before it crosses the Schuylkill River on the Schuylkill River Crossing Complex east of the parallel Sullivan's Bridge into...
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    Reading Company (category Predecessors of Conrail)
    Ferry Bridge across the Schuylkill River in West Philadelphia to Ridley Creek in Ridley Park in Delaware County. The segment included 4.9 miles of double...
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    Montgomery County, the turnpike crosses the Schuylkill River on the 1,224-foot-long (373 m) Schuylkill River Bridge. At the New Jersey state line in Bucks County...
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  • The Schuylkill and Susquehanna Navigation Company was a limited liability corporation founded in Pennsylvania on September 29, 1791. The company was founded...
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    becomes City Avenue, the western city limits of Philadelphia, at the end of which a short overlap with the Schuylkill Expressway (I-76) leads to the Roosevelt...
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    in 1828, connected the Schuylkill and Susquehanna Rivers, and ran from Reading to Middletown, Pennsylvania, a few miles south of Harrisburg, the state...
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    1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery (category History of Quakerism)
    most of it had already been sold. Penn suggested land near the Schuylkill Falls (East Falls), but it was too steep for Pastorius's plan, so as an alternative...
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    Ricketts Glen State Park (category State parks of Pennsylvania)
    bridge, which obscures much of the view. There are also several unnamed falls in the park, such as a good-sized unnamed waterfall on a tributary of the...
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    located at the northeast corner of Center Square, was chartered in July 1814, and the first Hamilton Street Bridge, a 530 feet (160 m)-long chain structure...
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    to Cynwyd on May 17, 1986, due to concerns about the Manayunk Bridge over the Schuylkill River. Service to Cynwyd ended altogether in 1988, but fierce...
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    Charles Ellet Jr. (category American bridge engineers)
    the first major wire-cable suspension bridge in the United States, spanning 358 feet over the Schuylkill River at Fairmount, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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  • London Borough of Croydon. The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) listed 187,800 records in the growing Folksong database as at October 2012 (which...
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  • Highway revolts in the United States (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from November 2015)
    Expressway portion of I-695 between the Schuylkill and Vine Street Expressways would be considered redundant, particularly because of its close proximity...
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    A list of urban parks by size includes parks at least 404.7 hectares (1,000 acres) or 4 square kilometres (1.5 sq mi) and contained entirely within a locality's...
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  • from the Andover mines was fashioned into cable wire for the bridge built at Niagara Falls and for the beams used to rebuild Princeton University's Nassau...
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    crested at a record-high of 19.4 feet (5.9 m), with streets flooding in Collegeville, Pennsylvania. The storm caused flooding along the Schuylkill River...
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    Richmond Enquirer History of Berks County in Pennsylvania, Volume 1, p. 473 (1886) Publications of the Historical Society of Schuylkill County, Volume 4, p...
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    following is a list of confirmed tornadoes confirmed by local offices of the National Weather Service during the tornado outbreak sequence of May 21–26, 2011...
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  • Warren, Ohio KZEF – Elkin Municipal Airport – Elkin, North Carolina KZER – Schuylkill County Airport (Joe Zerbey Field) – Pottsville, Pennsylvania KZPH (ZPH) –...
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  • affect the Iberian Peninsula. As the season falls outside the scope of the Atlantic hurricane database, records of most storms in 1842 are scarce, and only...
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