London Bridge

We went off to Lake Havasu City today. Robert McCulloch purchased 26 square miles for $73.47 per acre in 1963 and started selling lots surrounding the lake. The Colorado River runs right through it and is created by the Parker Dam. The lake can store 211 billion gallons of water and is most important for irrigation right down to Mexico. There are so many boats in the summer you could almost walk across the lake.
The London Bridge was built in London In 1831, from granite quarried in Dartmoor, Devon. It was bought by Robert McCulloch, dismantled into 10,276 pieces, each stone marked with a number and shipped 7000 miles to it's new home, bringing a unique tourist attraction and a large piece of history with it. You can see marks on the stone from German shells fired during the Battle of Britain in world War II. The cast iron lamposts were molded from French cannons captured during the 1815 Battle of Waterloo. It was reconstructed on dry land on a peninsula, with the sand supporting the 5 arches, 930' length and 49' width - all 22 million pounds. A one mile channel was dredged under it and the peninsula became an Island.