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    The Port Deposit Bridge (also known as the Susquehanna River Bridge or Rock Run Toll Bridge) was the earliest bridge crossing of the Susquehanna River...
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    Port Deposit is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States. It is located on the east bank of the Susquehanna River near its discharge into the Chesapeake...
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    important in the transportation history of the United States. Before the Port Deposit Bridge opened in 1818, the river formed a barrier between the northern and...
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    the rapidly increasing load, the Port Commissioners started planning in 1905 for a new improved bridge. In 1906 the Port Commission appointed a committee...
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    Susquehanna River for the Port Road Branch and the former Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad along the Susquehanna River. This bridge was built in 1905 for...
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    restored Jersey Toll House, where fees were collected for the historic Port Deposit Bridge. The privately run Steppingstone Museum, which preserves and demonstrates...
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  • listed afterward. This list includes active road, railroad, foot, and trail bridges, dams, fords, ferries, and historic crossings. Presently it does not include...
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  • of the "Ras al-Tin" quarter). Over the centuries sand and silt deposits made the port unnavigable. It was cleared by forces under the command of Alexander...
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  • Suez Canal Area Development Project (category Ports and harbours of the Arab League)
    Al-Nasr floating bridge to enable easy travel between Port Said and Port Fouad was built successfully and inaugurated in late 2016. The bridge extends from...
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    Perryville, Port Deposit, and Conowingo along its route paralleling the Susquehanna River in western Cecil County. Due to limitations in the highway in Port Deposit...
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    Louis Wernwag (category American bridge engineers)
    Conowingo Bridge in 1818 and rebuilt Theodore Burr's Port Deposit Bridge in 1824, both crossings of the Susquehanna River in Maryland. His last bridge was across...
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  • Burlington County Bridge Commission, Delaware River and Bay Authority, Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission and Delaware River Port Authority. The...
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    pedestrian walkway, Rambla de Mar, connects La Rambla to Port Vell. It incorporates a swing bridge, in order to allow ships to enter and exit the harbour...
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    ship Amadeo II, being used as a bunker barge at the port, was nearest to the explosion, which deposited the mangled remains of the ship on a nearby quay...
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    United States. The system is used statewide on all of the toll roads, toll bridges, and high-occupancy toll lanes along the California Freeway and Expressway...
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    2006. Retrieved July 15, 2006. "Port Deposit: History - Year by Year". Retrieved July 21, 2006. "Conowingo Bridge". Historical Society of Cecil County...
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    Maryland Rail Road Company (D&M) was chartered for $3,000,000 to build from Port Deposit or any other point on the Susquehanna's eastern river bank north to the...
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    agriculture, but mainly for industry and the large ash lagoons built to deposit spoil from the coal-fired Longannet Power Station near Kincardine. Historic...
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  • Catholic theological term for the content and truths of the Faith or "the deposit of the Faith", contrasted with fides qua creditur, which is the personal...
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    The Port of Oakland is a major container ship facility located in Oakland, California, in the San Francisco Bay. It was the first major port on the Pacific...
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    2285; 32.3042), connecting Port Said to Port Fuad. Opened in 2016, 420 m (1,380 ft) length. The Abanoub Gerges pontoon bridge (30°50′37″N 32°19′00″E /...
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    extended from the shipquay back to the bridge, on the slob lands (alluvial deposits) south of the city. By the 1840s the port had a thriving shipbuilding business...
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    and an artificial sea port near Shelter Bay, for shipping the iron ore mined from deposits at Lake Jeannine near Fermont. Port-Cartier, named after the...
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    The Irish Sea Bridge, sometimes called the Celtic Crossing by the media, is a hypothetical rail and road bridge that would span the Irish Sea and connect...
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  • Pons Sublicius (category Bridges in Rome)
    there. The bridge was part of public works projects that included building a port at Ostia, at the time the location of worked salt deposits. Legend tells...
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    Elisha-Lakshmipur Bridge, rail and road bridge to connect south Mizoram (Lunglei-Talabung) and south Tripura Sabroom to Feni-Barisal-Port of Mongla and Diamond...
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    Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (category Bridges in Maharashtra)
    highway bridge, which connects Mumbai with Navi Mumbai, its satellite city. It is the longest sea bridge in India, and the world's 12th longest sea bridge. The...
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    Mussafah (redirect from Mussafah Bridge)
    assessment of the bridge in 1994 revealed that the concrete in the bridge was not sustainable and was beyond repair. As a result, the bridge underwent much...
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    outbuildings atop a rocky cliff overlooking the Susquehanna River at Port Deposit. The mansion had more than 20 bedrooms, two spiral staircases, and views...
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    Jacob Tome (category People from Port Deposit, Maryland)
    Conowingo Bridge Company, as a director of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad, and as a director of the Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad...
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