Portal:National Register of Historic Places/Did you know/11

...that the Gudgeonville Covered Bridge (pictured) in Girard, Pennsylvania is said by local residents to be haunted by the ghost of a donkey?
...that the James Bruce Round Barn was designed with a distinctive single hip roof style because of the inability of many carpenters to build a self-supporting roof?
...that Croton Dam, on Michigan's Muskegon River, was the first hydroelectric plant to transmit power at 110,000 volts or more?
...that John Hunt Morgan's beloved mare, Black Bess, was portrayed as a stallion in the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, as its sculptor, Pompeo Coppini, believed "No hero should bestride a mare!"?
...that the Weinhard Brewery managed to survive Prohibition by producing near-beer, root beer and syrup, which were marketed as "Gourmet Elixirs"?