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postmaster reported 53 irregularities in mail service around
Wheeling between January and April. An 1840 postmaster's report urging a bridge to avoid such mail interruptions got lost. Another proposal requiring hinges on high steamboat smokestacks also initially failed. In 1844, a steamboat packet line began connecting Pittsburgh and Cincinnati (nearly bypassing Wheeling). As traffic on the National Road also languished, Virginia's congressmen finally abandoned their efforts to win federal funding for the Wheeling bridge in early 1847. That year civic boosters instead formed a new company to build the bridge, and the new officers requested proposals in May 1847. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad track to Wheeling was finally completed in 1853, the same year a packet line connected Wheeling and Louisville.
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under a barrier. The bridge was deemed safe and reopened to traffic in August after officials from the
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completed in 1830 to bypass the Ohio River's only major rapids). Both road and navigation improvements helped bring manufactured goods and people to
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at Rock Fish Gap. The new Wheeling bridge would be of a suspension design, since Ellet and Roebling were the foremost authorities. It would also be ninety feet above low water. Their initial calculations relied on the highest smokestacks being about 60 feet, but stack height kept increasing, so the
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on June 6, 1862. Ellet died of his injuries on June 21, becoming the only Union casualty in what soon proved a crucial Union victory—Memphis surrendering by day's end, the eight-ram Confederate "Cottonclad River Defense Fleet" destroyed (with an estimated 180 Confederate casualties), and the Ellet
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planned bridge came to impede the largest steamboats with high stacks. Ellet received the contract award in 1847 with a bid of $ 120,000 (Roebling's for a shorter double-span bridge was $ 130,000), and construction began the same year. The bridge was completed in 1849 for about $ 250,000.
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2530:National Register of Historic Places
1796:Historic American Engineering Record
1734:Walker, Brent (September 24, 2019).
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1633:Fluharty, Nate (February 17, 2011).
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1021:on the Mississippi River during the
793:Supreme Court litigation (1849–1852)
3224:Suspension bridges in West Virginia
2741:Mount de Chantal Visitation Academy
1660:Reid, Melissa (February 18, 2011).
1470:1 Wood. and M. 401 (27 Fed.Cas. 91)
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1157:List of crossings of the Ohio River
1095:Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
718:into the Shenandoah Valley and the
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3284:Steel bridges in the United States
2441:National Historic Preservation Act
1982:John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge
1136:West Virginia Division of Highways
1102:West Virginia Division of Highways
812:U.S. v. New Bedford Bridge Company
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1964:Wheeling Suspension Bridge
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1612:Monroe, at pp. 169 et seq.
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1091:National Historic Landmark
969:Consequences and precedent
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