America - Buying Tower Bridge

The story of "America buying Tower Bridge" is one of history's most persistent urban legends. While an American did famously purchase a bridge from London in 1968, he bought , not the more ornate, iconic Tower Bridge . The Real Transaction

In 1968, American entrepreneur and chainsaw mogul purchased the 1831 "New" London Bridge for $2,460,000 . america buying tower bridge

: By the 1960s, the Victorian-era London Bridge was literally sinking into the River Thames at a rate of about one inch every eight years because it could not handle modern traffic. The story of "America buying Tower Bridge" is