Portal : National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/11
...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"?