Notable Events
- On Independence Day, 4 July 1927, an interstate wedding took place on the span between Wheeling, West Virginia resident Roberta Pearl Thomas of, and Harry E. Stricklin of Bellaire, Ohio. It is not known whether the bride or groom paid the toll.
- Portions of the movie The Silence of the Lambs were filmed on the bridge.
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