Freed slave Horace King built America’s biggest bridges in the 1800s. Meet his son who was solid in his own right
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Horace King was born into slavery on a South Carolina plantation but he rose to become a prolific architect and the most respected bridge builder in west Georgia, Alabama, and northeast Mississippi from the 1830s until the 1880s. Horace King built massive bridges, industrial facilities, courthouses, and other significant buildings across the southern United States....
