Point Pleasant, West Virginia: Silver Bridge Mural: Pre-Doom
Painted on a Point Pleasant flood wall, at the exact spot where the Silver Bridge formerly entered town, gives the illusion that you're about to drive onto the doomed bridge.
- Address:
- 601 Main St., Point Pleasant, WV
- Directions:
- Downtown, at the west end of 6th St.
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A mural is in honor of the lives lost because of the Silver Bridge collapse on December 15, 1967.
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The mural is painted at the exact spot along the river where the Silver Bridge formerly entered Point Pleasant. The bridge collapsed at sunset, also captured in the mural.