Most of it but not all. The bridge is 58 feet shorter than the original, which was built in 1825. And it is hollow. The original was solid, which is why the city of London decided to get rid of it back in the 1960s. It was sinking into the Thames.
It was put up for sale, and the highest bid came from Robert McCulloch, the founder of Lake Havasu who made a ton selling chainsaws and stuff like that. He paid $2.46 million for it. It was disassembled and each piece was numbered. It was a good thing they thought of that, or they probably never could have got it all put back together. That's the sort of thing I'd forget if it were me.
Then, it was shipped to Long Island, Calif., and trucked to the Lake Havasu. It took three years to put it back together, and it was dedicated in October 1971.
The bridge spans a boating channel that connects with Thompson Bay on the Arizona side of Lake Havasu.
This is interesting: When they reassembled it, they did so on dry land and then dredged out a waterway underneath it. Maybe you already knew that, but I didn't.
