The Capon Lake Whipple Truss Bridge is a historic bridge across the Cacapon River in Capon Lake, West Virginia. The bridge's Whipple truss technology was developed by civil engineer Squire Whipple in 1847, and modified by J. W. Murphy in 1859 to include pinned eyebar connections. The bridge is West Virginia's oldest remaining Whipple truss bridge and its oldest intact metal truss bridge. The structure was originally built in a different location in 1874 as part of a larger two-span bridge conveying the Northwestern Turnpike across the South Branch Potomac River near Romney. When a new bridge was constructed at this site in 1937, the old bridge was dismantled and relocated to the current site in Capon Lake in southeastern Hampshire County to carry Capon Springs Road between West Virginia Route 259 and Capon Springs. The bridge was dedicated on August 20, 1938. In 1991 a new bridge was completed to the south, and the existing bridge was preserved in place by the West Virginia Division of Highways, due to its rarity, age, and engineering significance. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

553:

The Second Council of Constantinople, considered by many Christian churches to have been the fifth Christian Ecumenical Council, began to discuss the topics of Nestorianism and Origenism, among others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Constantinople

1809:

Mary Dixon Kies became the first American woman to receive a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Dixon_Kies

1912:

The Bolshevik newspaper Pravda (issue pictured) was first published in Saint Petersburg, Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda

1980:

The British Special Air Service stormed the Iranian Embassy in London, six days after Iranian Arab separatists had seized it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Embassy_siege

1991:

Rioting broke out in Washington, D.C., after a rookie police officer shot a Salvadorean man in the chest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Washington,_D.C._riot

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

smitten: 1. Made irrationally enthusiastic. 2. In love. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smitten

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.   --Søren Kierkegaard https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard