Centenarian Bridges, Part 2
In last week’s column we discussed some very old bridges in the Bridgeville area and in Allegheny County. The positive feedback we received from that column has encouraged us to follow up on our promise to do another column on this subject. Part of our difficulty evaluating old bridges is the extent of replacement some of them have experienced. This bring to mind the old story of George Washington’s Axe. It has been reported that visitors to Mount Vernon are provided the opportunity to split a piece of firewood using the very axe that the “father of our country” used…