Arizona's London Bridge

Today’s Fun Fact comes to you from the warm and sunny state of Arizona where I am attending the Desert Dreams Writers’ Conference. In honor of my stay here, and since I write English historical romance, I am giving you an Arizona fun fact with ties to English history.
Did you know the original London Bridge is now in Lake Havasu City?
A bridge of some sort has crossed the Thames since before the Romans settled in Britain. But the bridge seen in the photos from Queen Victoria’s reign did not appear until the 19th century. The medieval stone bridge was narrow and old and not suitable for the amount of traffic coming and going from London.
In 1824 construction began on the new bridge that would be completed in 1832. It would remain the main bridge into and out of London for the next 130 years. however, in the early 20th century it was noted that the bridge had begun to sink and a modern concrete structure was built to replace it in the 1960s.
The stones of the original bridge were then put up for sale in 1967 and on April 17, 1968, an American named Robert P. McCulloch Sr., purchased the bridge. The blocks were numbered and shipped by sea from London through the Panama Canal to Long Beach, CA then trucked across the desert to Arizona. Once they reached their destination, each of the 10,246 stones were reassembled, stone by stone, over a lagoon at the edge Lake Havasu where it opened on October 10, 1971.