Bridges

Charleston is a great place to see the evolution of bridges. This stone foundation is of a bridge is probably from around the early 1900’s. Notice that the stone work isn’t really the best in the world.
Next is a pile bridge. This is where they drove cement piles into the ground and built a road on top of the cement cross members. It looks like a big storm tore this one up.
After that they built a large steel truss swing bridge that is still used today. In fact, the bridge refused to work for us and we had to anchor for 45 minutes while they called a mechanic to come and repair this bridge.
This ugly thing is what we see the most of, the “high rise” bridge that spans most of the ICW today. It’s very efficient but has little beauty.
Finally, a beautiful suspended bridge over part of the Charleston harbor. Functionality and beauty all in one.
5 different types of bridges within a span of 3 miles representing (I’m guessing) about 100 years of bridge building. How neat!