Note: Completion year and longest suspended span length may not be known for all bridges listed below.
Also, span lengths are sometimes estimated based on satellite imagery.
Year Completed |
Bridge |
Location |
Crossing - Feature |
Coordinates |
Longest Suspended Span (meters) |
Images |
Year Completed |
Bridge |
Location |
Crossing - Feature |
Coordinates |
Longest Suspended Span (meters) |
Images |
1801 | Jacob's Creek (Iron Bridge, Chain Bridge) | Iron Bridge, Mount Pleasant vicinity, Pennsylvania, USA | Jacob's Creek | 40.112598 N 79.553186 W | 21.34 | |
1807 | Chain | Georgetown, District of Columbia and Virginia, USA | Potomac River | 38.92959 N 77.11627 W | 39.17 | |
1807 | Wills Creek | Cumberland, Maryland, USA | Wills Creek | | 42.37 | |
1809 | (suspension bridge) | Brownsville vicinity, Pennsylvania, USA | | | | |
1809 | (suspension bridge) | Brownsville, Pennsylvania, USA | Dunlap's Creek | | | |
1809 | Schuylkill Falls | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA | Schuylkill River | | 46.63 | |
1810 | (suspension bridge) | Frankfort, Kentucky, USA | Kentucky River | | 50.9 | |
1810 | (suspension bridge) | Paulings Ford, Pennsylvania, USA | Schuylkill River | | | |
1810 | (suspension bridge) | Reading, Pennsylvania, USA | Schuykill River | | | |
1810 | (suspension bridge) | Wilmington, Delaware, USA | Brandywine Creek | | 44.2 | |
1810 | (suspension bridge) | Wrightstown, Pennsylvania, USA | Neshaminy River | | 30.48 | |
1810 | Chain (Essex-Merrimack) | Newburyport, Massachusetts, USA | Merrimack River - Deer Island | 42.833947 N 70.906811 W | 74.07 | Images |
1811 | (suspension bridge) | Juniata Crossing, Pennsylvania, USA | Juniata River | | | |
1811 | (suspension bridge) | Kentucky, USA | | | | |
1811 | (suspension bridge) | Kentucky, USA | | | | |
1811 | Third Street | Easton, Pennsylvania, USA | Lehigh River | | | |
1814 | Hamilton Street | Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA | Lehigh River | | | |
1820 | Wills Creek | Cumberland, Maryland, USA | Wills Creek | | 46.18 | |
1823 | (suspension bridge) | RĂ©union, France | Sainte-Suzanne River | | 40.16 | Images |
1823 | (suspension bridge) | RĂ©union, France | Mat River | | 40.16 | |
1824 | Biery's | Biery's Port (Catasauqua), Pennsylvania, USA | Lehigh River | | | |
1824 | Lehigh Gap (Palmerton) | Lehigh Gap, Pennsylvania, USA | Lehigh River | | | Images |