Event

By Dr. Don Heinrich Tolzmann

CCSBC Historian

An 1866 illustration of the Roebling Suspension Bridge shows the newly constructed bridge spanning the Ohio River. It appeared late in the Civil War in Harper’s Weekly and then was reprinted in Harper’s Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion in 1866. It shows the Ohio River filled with steamboats making their way up and downstream. It reminds us that work continued on the bridge during the War Between the States.