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Adirondack Bridgebuilder from Charleston: The Life and Times of Robert Codgell Gilchrist
Adirondack Bridgebuilder from Charleston The Life and Times of Robert Codgell Gilchrist Author:Rosemary Miner Pelkey Here is the story of a Confederate Major who built the first suspension bridge across the Hudson River in 1871. How and why a Southerner came to the Adirondacks only a year after Appomattox to build a bridge is recounted.