Education
Lafayette College.
Lafayette College.
Porter III served on the civil engineering faculty at Lafayette from 1890 to 1917 and was an early advocate for materials testing. Both bridges have national significance for their unique designs and have been documented by the Historic American Engineering Record. Drawings and calculations for these bridges are among Porter"s papers collected at the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society, the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission archives, and in Special Collections at Lafayette College"s Skillman Library.