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Dunlap's Creek Bridge
2-50 Market St
Brownsville, PA 15417Built in 1836. It is the oldest cast iron bridge in the world.
From Searight's The Old Pike (1894):
A few yards westward from the Monongahela House the road crosses Dunlap's creek over a handsome and expensive iron bridge, erected in 1835, and the first of the kind west of the Allegheny mountains. The vicissitudes attending the construction of this bridge have been alluded to in a previous chapter. The stone work of this bridge, which is a fine specimen of heavy masonry, was let by contract to William Searight, who pushed it forward and completed it with his characteristic energy. David Chipps, a well remembered old citizen of the vicinity of Uniontown, and an expert stone mason, was a boss workman on this bridge, and the late Gen. William W. Williams, who in the prime of his life was an excellent mason, also worked on its walls and abutments. The work was done under authority of the War Department of the general government.
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Dunlap's Creek Bridge. Courtesy of the Library of Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Dunlap's Creek Bridge. Courtesy of the Library of Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Dunlap's Creek Bridge. Courtesy of the Library of Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Dunlap's Creek Bridge. Courtesy of the Library of Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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Dunlap's Creek Bridge. Courtesy of the Library of Congress/Historic American Buildings Survey.
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