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Photographer: Tim Carr
Taken: March 13, 2010
Caption: Horace King Marker (foreground) and Captain Benjamin F. Eddins Marker (background)
Additional Description: Old Location - The two markers are stand on the approach where Horace King built the first river bridge at this site in 1834. The first bridge was damaged by a tornado in 1842, and rebuilt in 1852, and then destroyed by Union Troops in 1865. Horace King built a new wooden bridge in 1872, that bridge was replaced with a 3-span iron bridge in 1882. To accommodate river traffic a higher bridge with a swing span was built 1895. That bridge was replaced with a drawbridge in 1922 and was used up to 1974 after the Hugh Thomas Bridge was opened slightly downstream. All the bridges built on this site utilized the original 1834 piers.
Submitted: March 21, 2010, by Timothy Carr of Birmingham, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p101488
File Size: 0.401 Megabytes

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