Five Minute Histories: Hanover Street Bridge
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Veteran’s Day is this Friday and in our Baltimore Heritage way, we would like to say thank you to those who served. Please join us at the 106-year old Hanover Street Bridge, also known as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge to learn about the long history of crossing the Patapsco River. Thank you for watching and see you again soon with another video!
This is our series called "Five Minute Histories." We record short videos about different historic places all over Baltimore and post them on our Facebook page, UA-cam channel, and website. For more information or to become a member of Baltimore Heritage, check out: baltimoreherit...
So happy to see my favorite bridge in one of your videos! Thank you for the informative historical and engineering perspectives.
His surviving company Greiner Engineering built the Bay Bridge - and the harbor tunnel, Friendship airport, the Mystic River bridge, the Tampa and Orlando airports and much of I-75. It was owned by Easco Corporation of Baltimore where I was an officer for awhile. He built a home on St. Paul St in Guilford where members of the Mitchell family lived for many years.
This bridge is so rough to drive over 😮💨
Anyone know the last time the span was opened?
Good question! Hopefully someone here knows.
@@baltimoreheritage1006 In October of 2021 it was stuck open, so it can probably still open today! Thanks for making your video. Take care.
That bridge been there since 1916? 😳
Nice video, but it’s called the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge.
One point of correction. While J E Greiner was involved in building the Hanover Street Bridge, he could not have been personally involved with the Bay Bridge because he died in 1942. Probably it was the Greiner company but not Greiner himself.
Thank you Mark!
Yeah the potholes on that bridge definitely show it’s age
Another enjoyable segment, Johns. Thanks for doing these. Another comment. The bridge over the Susquehanna is not a railroad bridge, but the Rte. 40 bridge, now known as the Hatem Bridge.
Thanks Milford!
When I worked in BG&Es gas division out of Front Street many years ago, we had a detailed drawing of the Hanover St. Bridge due to it carrying a large cast iron gas main from the Spring Gardens gas plant across the river to Brooklyn. At the draw span, the gas main traveled down the bridge pier, across the river bed, and back up the pier on the other side of the span. Every cast iron pipe joint was drawn in detail. The overall drawing details were impressive and all inked by hand back when drafters had to be very skilled in both drawing and lettering style. I believe the drawing was put in the company's historic archives at the Front St. Complex along with other early gas company artifacts like the original field book of the Gas Light Company of Baltimore founded by Rembrandt Peale.
Wow what cool artifacts!
Thanks for another informative video! I used to like using that bridge to go from the Brooklyn Park area into South Baltimore & Federal Hill when I used to live in Laurel, MD (much better than the busy, congested 295 route). However, I never knew that I was using such a unique & historical bascule bridge!
We learned a lot ourselves making this video
And remember the Maryland Yacht Club.
Very interesting video. I'm sure the mechanism to raise the bridge is still operational, but do they do they still open the bridge on a regular basis to let boat traffic out? Thanks
Good question--we're looking into it!
I like the I-296 bridge. You can see the city skyline as you are coming into the city. You can also see the stadiums from up there.
Back in the 70s we used to go fishing and crabbing underneath the bridge to the Trussell into some big storm and ever since it's been watering underneath the the bridge
Greiner Engineering designed the bridges, so deserves much credit that they have stood and functioned this long. The bridges were constructed by others, who were construction contracting firms. But that is another future story.