Portal:National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/11
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- ...that the Gudgeonville Covered Bridge (pictured) in Girard, Pennsylvania is said by local residents to be haunted by the ghost of a donkey?
- ...that the James Bruce Round Barn was designed with a distinctive single hip roof style because of the inability of many carpenters to build a self-supporting roof?
- ...that Croton Dam, on Michigan's Muskegon River, was the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power at 110,000 volts or more?
- ...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
- ...that the Weinhard Brewery managed to survive Prohibition by producing near-beer, root beer and syrup, which were marketed as "Gourmet Elixirs"?