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Gracing a channel in the Mount Hope Bay between Bristol, Rhode Island and Portsmouth, Rhode Island, the Mount Hope Bridge is a beautiful suspension bridge that was opened on October 24, 1929, replacing ferries that ran between Bristol and Portsmouth.  The Mount Hope Bridge carries RI 114 and is a two lane, wire cable suspension bridge with its towers at 285 feet tall, the length of the main span at 1200 feet long and the roadway sitting 135 feet over the water. The total length of the bridge including all spans is 6130 feet. The Mount Hope Bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1976. In 1920, Rhode Island legislator William Connery of Bristol requested that a committee be set up to investigate the construction of a bridge between Portsmouth and Bristol. The reason behind the request was that delegates from Aquidneck Island were often times late to their meetings in Providence during the winter due to ferries not being able to cross frozen w...

For those of you that use Flickr to host your photographs, and are interested, the 2010 Flickr scavenger hunts for signs is now in full swing, awarding points for different signs found. The scavenger hunts are currently being hosted for the following states and regions up and down the East Coast. New England - http://www.flickr.com/groups/newenglandsigns/ New York - http://www.flickr.com/groups/nysigns/ Pennsylvania - http://www.flickr.com/groups/paroadsigns/ North Carolina - http://www.flickr.com/groups/nchighwaysigns/ It is also a possibility that Virginia may have a sign scavenger hunt as well. http://www.flickr.com/groups/vahwysigns/