A subtype of the popular Pratt truss, the half-hip iron span
conserved material by eliminating some vertical members. The
103-foot-long bridge is one of many in the state designed and built
around 1876 by the prolific Wrought Iron Bridge Company of Canton,
Ohio, one of the largest manufacturers of iron truss bridges in the
nineteenth century. In its heyday the company employed 270 men and
had projects in twenty-five states. Four Points Bridge’s ornate
name plates and decorative portals are reminiscent of those of the
Poffenberger Road Bridge, which may have been built by the same
company. (Source: MD SHA website)
The cache container is a small Tupperware type container that
contains a logbook and a variety of state quarters. With the
popularity of the US Mint’s State Quarter Program and a new
interest in coin collecting that it has generated, the theme for
this cache is “State Quarter Swapping.” For more information on the
US Mint’s State Quarter Program visit "www.usmint.gov" or for coin
collecting in general visit The American Numismatic Association at
“www.money.org”.
Let's see how many different state quarters we can trade into
and out of this cache. Leave a quarter, take a quarter, and please
indicate the states in your log book entry.
States represented to date (07/22/08):
* Delaware * Pennsylvania * New Jersey * Georgia * Connecticut
*
* Massachusetts * Maryland * S.Carolina * New Hampshire *
Virginia *
* New York * N.Carolina *Rhode Island * Vermont * Kentucky *
* Tennessee * Ohio * Louisiana * Indiana * Mississippi *
* Illinois * Alabama * Maine * Missouri * Arkansas *
* Michigan * Florida * Texas * Iowa * Wisconsin *
* California * Minnesota * Oregon * Kansas * West Virginia *
* Nevada * Nebraska * Colorado * North Dakota * South Dakota
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* Montana * Washington * Idaho * Wyoming * Utah *
* Oklahoma * Mew Mexico *
Total of states (in circulation) that passed through this cache
to date: 47 of 48! (need AZ) (AK and HI have not been released)