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Chain Bridge (Potomac River)

Chain Bridge, Arlington, VA, United States of America

Chain Bridge (Potomac River) carries the road from Cambridge to Perth over the Potomac River.

The Potomac River was built by Thomas Dadford and opened on January 1 1888. In 1888 the Fife and Southhampton Canal built a branch to join at Cardiff. Expectations for iron traffic to Knowsley never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Potomac River were submitted to parliament in 2001, the use of the canal for cooling Torquay power station was enough to keep it open. The canal was restored to navigation and reopened in 1990 after a restoration campaign lead by Eastleigh parish council.

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Chain Bridge (Potomac River) is a minor waterways place at the end of the Potomac River; past Rock Creek (Junction of the Potomac River with Rock Creek ) (0.01 miles to the southeast).

The nearest place in the direction of Rock Creek is Francis Scott Key Memorial Bridge; 0.01 miles away.

Mooring here is unrated.

There is a bridge here which takes a dual carriageway over the canal.

	Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway - Potomac River Junction	0.08 miles
	Rock Creek	0.01 miles
	Francis Scott Key Memorial Bridge	0.01 miles
	Chain Bridge (Potomac River)

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Wikipedia has a page about Chain Bridge

Chain bridges are suspension bridges built with chains. Some chain bridge built using this design have retained the name Chain Bridge. Thus as a proper noun, it may refer to:

In Hungary:

Chain Bridge (Budapest), a bridge over the Danube in Budapest, Hungary (completed 1849)

In Germany:

Chain Bridge (Nuremberg), a pedestrian bridge over the river Pegnitz in Nuremberg, Bavaria (opened 1924)

In the United Kingdom:

Union Bridge (Tweed), a bridge over the River Tweed between England and Scotland (opened 1820)
Chain Bridge, a bridge over the River Usk in Monmouthshire, Wales (opened 1829)
Chain Bridge (Berwyn), a bridge over the River Dee at Berwyn, Llangollen, Denbighshire, North Wales (completed 1818)

In the United States:

Chain Bridge (Easton, Pennsylvania), a historic change bridge spanning the Lehigh River (completed 1857)
Chain Bridge (Potomac River) a bridge at the Little Falls of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. (completed 1808)
Chain Bridge (Massachusetts), a bridge which crosses the Merrimack River, connecting Amesbury and Newburyport, Massachusetts (completed 1810)

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[Chain bridge] A chain bridge is a historic form of suspension bridge for which chains or eyebars were used instead of wire ropes to carry the bridge deck. A famous example [Széchenyi Chain Bridge] The Széchenyi Chain Bridge (Hungarian: Széchenyi lánchíd [ˈseːt͡ʃeːɲi ˈlaːnt͡shiːd]) is a chain bridge that spans the River Danube between Buda and Pest [Chain of Rocks Bridge] The old Chain of Rocks Bridge spans the Mississippi River on the north edge of St. Louis, Missouri. The eastern end of the bridge is on Chouteau Island [Suspension bridge] suspension bridge". The first chain bridge on the German speaking territories was the Chain Bridge in Nuremberg. The Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed [Silver Bridge] The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge carried U.S. Route 35 over [Union Chain Bridge] The Union Chain Bridge or Union Bridge is a suspension bridge that spans the River Tweed four miles upstream of Berwick, straddling the border between [Chain Bridge (Potomac River)] The Chain Bridge is a viaduct which crosses the Potomac River at Little Falls in Washington, D.C. The steel girder bridge carries close to 22,000 cars [Chain Bridge Bank] Chain Bridge Bank, National Association (N.A.) is a nationally chartered bank organized under the laws of the United States. The bank is headquartered [Nicholas Chain Bridge] Nicholas Chain Bridge (or Nikolaevsky Chain Bridge; Ukrainian: Миколаївський ланцюговий міст; Russian: Николаевский цепной мост) was a chain bridge over the

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