Good News In History, November 13
Good News In History, November 13 97 years ago today, the Holland Tunnel opened connecting New York and New Jersey under the Hudson River. Consisting of two tubes and made a series of cast iron and steel rings bound with 19 inches of concrete running over 8,000 feet in length, it was designed by Clifford Milburn Holland, the project’s chief engineer, who died in October 1924, before it was completed. It is both a National Historic Landmark and a National Historic Civil and Mechanical Engineering Landmark. READ how it came to be… (1927) The Holland Tunnel from Jersey City – CC 3.0. SA Ss4vegito7 The first tunnel under the Hudson was made in 1910 and was actually for railway lines, while the cars passed over on ferries. Eventually, this car traffic had grown to such a point that the boats were at full capacity, and so many of them took up space in the harbor that some freight started going to other ports in the United States. Groundbreaking took place in October of 1920, after several revis…
