Gray's Ferry Bridge

The modern Gray's Ferry Bridge is a four-lane divided highway bridge, built in 1976, which carries Grays Ferry Avenue across the Schuylkill River and AMTRAK tracks in the Grays Ferry neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Before there was a bridge, Gray's Ferry connected Philadelphia to the Darby Road (now Woodland Avenue at 47th Street), which was part of the King's Highway, the main land route to Delaware, Baltimore, and the southern colonies. According to some historians, the first bridge across the Schuylkill River was a pontoon bridge built about 1780. The Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad had a floating bridge, which may have coexisted with the 1780 bridge, and carried just cars, not locomotives, across the...