Ohio River Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Bridge collapse=== [[File:Silver Bridge, 1928.jpg|thumb|right|[[Silver Bridge]] in [[Point Pleasant, West Virginia]], which collapsed into the Ohio River on December 15, 1967, killing 46 people]] The Silver Bridge at [[Point Pleasant, West Virginia]], collapsed into the river on December 15, 1967. The collapse killed 46 people who had been crossing when the bridge failed. The bridge had been built in 1929, and by 1967 was carrying too heavy a load for its design.<ref>{{cite journal |last=LeRose |first=Chris |date=October 2001 |title=The Collapse of the Silver Bridge |url=http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs/wvhs1504.html |journal=West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly |volume=15 |issue=4 |access-date=December 20, 2018 |archive-date=March 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306020500/http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhs/wvhs1504.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The bridge was rebuilt about one mile downstream and in service as the [[Silver Memorial Bridge]] in 1969. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page