The Bridge That London Sold to America

In 1968, the City of London sold a 137-year-old granite bridge to an American chainsaw tycoon for 2.46 million dollars. He dismantled it block by block, shipped ten thousand tons of stone through the Panama Canal, and rebuilt it in the Arizona desert over a channel he dug himself. This is the story of why London let it go, why a man who made chainsaws wanted it, and what the most expensive antique ever sold tells us about what cities choose to keep and what they throw away.

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