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This is a great idea! I am all for it! I'm sure we all appreciate the tremendous work you do on these web sites!

How about "Crime Scenes"? Kansas City's Union Station (KC massacre). Or how about bridges that were crime scenes? The Jackson County, MO 10E bridge where the Greenlease kidnapping ransom was placed, or Cleveland's Sideaway Bridge, a focal point of the "torso murders" case. http://realneo.us/content/neighborhood-pedestrian-bridge-%E2%80%93-cleveland-history

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HEY... That house has eight sides to it!

Should we put half houses on there?

Cool, I live in a historic landmark.

ok, so i was in the west last year. thinking we should add a category for the tourist traps that claim to have the largest whatever. (sarcasm)

Here's a good start for the new website.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...............

Too many distractions while I am trying to get to a bridge.

OH.....look at that barn!

WOW.....neat old school!

HEY.....that house has 8 sides to it!

I will need Ritalin just to keep up with it all!!

Okay seriously......Just as I (and the rest of you Pontist nuts out there) have my vices when it comes to historic spans, I am sure there are enough fans of these other landmarks out there to make this happen. Almost as long as I have enjoyed bridges, I have also had interests in Round Barns, Old Mills, and Cemeteries just to name a few. And I will often take pictures of these things that I happen across in my bridge travels. I will just have to improve my documentation of said things, because of the pictures I have now most I could not tell you where they are at.

Great idea for a new, and incredibly interesting, site!

Some other possibilities:

- Museums

- Stores

- Trails (trailhead)

- Overlook (scenic lookout)

James, you're nuts. Like, you don't already have enough to do? :)

However, thank goodness that you are nuts! Your dedication to preservation is to be commended, as you're providing something that will be an invaluable reference as time goes on.

The Bridge Hunter site has already proven to be a valuable tool for research and for folks fighting for preservation, using Bridge Hunter material as evidence. I envision Landmark Hunter will become the same type of a valuable asset.

Just to add a little more alchol to the fire, to me, ferries are a water crossing and should remain here. Locks and dams are also water crossings, even though dams are being shifted away from the double-duty these days. Tunnels are also bridges, of a sort, and should remain here.

That said, some dams, tunnels and ferries qualify as historic landmarks (Hoover Dam and the S.S. "Badger" come to mind offhand) and maybe qualify for having listings on both sites, but I'd like to see them remain here so they don't get lost in the immensity that Landmark Hunter will become.

list looks great. i can't wait for the website to be up. Because bridge hunting and landmark hunting seem to go hand in hand.

Wow this is going to be a much more broad and large site than I expected!

I know Rick and I will enjoy adding Water tower photos to this website. We at HistoricBridges.org do not have enough time to maintain a watertower site (we tried) because alas maintaining a bridges website alone is more than enough work for me!

You have Bridges listed in the list of categories, I assume this is in error. Also, saw you have Tunnels and Dams listed in the list. Will you be moving all tunnels and Dams off of BridgeHunter? Either way, I recommend picking one site or the other in which to have these listed. You might consider moving the Ferries category over to this new site

As long as you are adding categories, you might as well add one for Manhole Covers. Most people ignore them, but some are quite old and artistic. Michigan based East Jordan Ironworks still makes nice looking ones today. They cast manhole covers for Allegan, MI with an image of the town's truss bridge on it.