Port Deposit Bridge photograph

Port Deposit Bridge

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Destruction date 1857
Total length1,271 m
Construction started1817
Opened 1818
Locations Port Deposit
EngineersTheodore Burr
Louis Wernwag
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Date of Upd.
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About Port Deposit Bridge


The Port Deposit Bridge was the earliest bridge crossing of the Susquehanna River below Columbia, Pennsylvania, providing the first reliable link between the northern and southern United States. The bridge was also the fifth and last of Theodore Burr's Susquehanna crossings.

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