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Wernwag Bridge

    The wooden Wernwag Bridge at Spring Garden Street, opened in 1812 as the longest single-span bridge in the world, hailed as the “Colossus Bridge.”

    1835
    Copyright
    Public Domain
    Attribution/Credit

    “A View of Fairmount and the Waterworks,” Lithograph by John Rubens Smith, Library of Congress.