Directory of Point Pleasant Resources

The Silver Bridge over the Ohio river, USA, named because of its shiny silver paint, collapsed after a holding pin came loose.

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Silver Bridge Disaster

http://www.thebridgeproject.com/project/silverbridgedisaster/silverbridge.html
Scanned newspaper clippings.
The Collapse of the Silver Bridge

http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs/wvhs1504.html
The West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly Journal provides an account of this disaster.
The Silver Bridge

http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Bridges/Silver-Bridge.htm
Article on the collapse of this eyebar suspension bridge over the Ohio River in 1967, with eyewitness accounts and the conclusions of the investigation that followed.

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