Mayo Bridge Plaques
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Image Details
- Source:
- The Valentine
- Collection:
- Edith K. Shelton Photograph Collection
- Date:
- 9/1970
- Region:
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Richmond, Virginia
(inherited from source) - Description:
- 35mm color slide of a pair of bronze plaques on the Mayo Bridge, in Shockoe Bottom; upper plaque reads, "The Original Structure / Of This Bridge Was Erected By / John Mayo / October 26, 1733 / This Tablet Is Placed In His Memory / By His Great Granddaughters / Sarah Sergeant Mayo Oppenheimer / Sara Lippincott Richards / 1931;" lower plaque reads, "Mayo Bridge / City of Richmond, VA. / Erected A.D. 1911-13 / L. L. Smith & Company Inc. - Richmond, VA. / Engineers & Contractors / Concrete Steel Engineering Co. - New York / Designing and Consulting Engineers;" Richmond, Virginia. Geographic Description: Richmond, Va. --Shockoe Bottom (Richmond, Va.)
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