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Cheat Bridge, West Virginia
Cheat Bridge is an unincorporated community in southeastern Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. It is located near U.S. Route 250's crossing of Shavers Fork.
==The bridge==
As its name suggests, Cheat Bridge is named for the bridge over Shavers Fork of Cheat River located here and first built in the 19th century to service the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike. The original covered bridge was built before the American Civil War. After the Battle of Greenbrier River (3 October 1861), Union troops used the bridge when they built extensive military defenses at nearby Cheat Summit. Over 40 years later, celebrated satirist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce revisited the site of his youthful service. He found that “…the old wooden covered bridge across the Cheat River looks hardly a day older, and is still elaborately decorated with soldiers’ names carven with jack-knives.”〔Letter, Ambrose Bierce to Alexander Whitehall, 30 September 1904. Published in ''Ninth Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry Association: Proceedings of the 18th Annual Reunion'' (N.p., 1904), pp 13-18. Reprinted as “Battlefields and Ghosts” (Palo Alto, California: Harvest Press, 1931) and in Joshi, S.T. and David E. Schultz, eds. (1998), ''Ambrose Bierce, A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography''; Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, pp 3-6.〕
The current bridge is a steel truss bridge built in 1912 by the Canton Bridge Company. It carries County Route 250/4, which provides access to adjacent Monongahela National Forest lands. The existing bridge is in rather poor shape and has a 3-ton load limit. Today, U.S. Route 250 crosses the Shavers Fork River on a 1934 truss bridge located approximately north of Cheat Bridge.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=U.S. 250 Bridge at Shavers Fork Cheat River )〕
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