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Cairo Mississippi River Bridge

Index Cairo Mississippi River Bridge

The Cairo Mississippi River Bridge is a type of cantilever bridge known as a Steel Truss Through Deck carrying U.S. Route 60 and U.S. Route 62 across the Mississippi River. [1]

38 relations: American Bridge Company, American Civil War, Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Barge, Bird's Point, Missouri, Cairo I-57 Bridge, Cairo Ohio River Bridge, Cairo, Illinois, California, Cantilever bridge, Dorena–Hickman Ferry, Fort Defiance (Illinois), Illinois, Illinois Department of Transportation, Kentucky, List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River, Malden Regional Airport, Mark Twain, Memphis, Tennessee, Mississippi River, Missouri, Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., North American T-28 Trojan, Ohio River, Prisoner of war, Pusher (boat), River mouth, Semi-trailer truck, Slavery in the United States, Sultana (steamboat), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Toll bridge, Truck driver, Truss bridge, U.S. Route 60, U.S. Route 62, Union Army, 2011 Mississippi River floods.

American Bridge Company

The American Bridge Company is a civil engineering firm that specializes in building and renovating bridges and other large civil engineering projects.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, was assassinated by well-known stage actor John Wilkes Booth on April 14, 1865, while attending the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Shot in the head as he watched the play, Lincoln died the following day at 7:22 a.m., in the Petersen House opposite the theater.

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Barge

A barge is a flat-bottomed ship, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods.

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Bird's Point, Missouri

Bird's Point (or Birds Point) is an unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Missouri.

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Cairo I-57 Bridge

The Cairo I-57 Bridge is a steel through arch bridge carrying 4 lanes of Interstate 57 across the Mississippi River at Cairo, Illinois.

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Cairo Ohio River Bridge

The Cairo Ohio River Bridge is a cantilever bridge carrying U.S. Route 51, U.S. Route 60, and U.S. Route 62 across the Ohio River between and Wickliffe, Kentucky and Cairo, Illinois.

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Cairo, Illinois

Cairo is the southernmost city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and is the county seat of Alexander County.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Cantilever bridge

A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using cantilevers, structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end.

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Dorena–Hickman Ferry

The Dorena–Hickman Ferry is a ferry across the Mississippi River between Dorena, Missouri and Hickman, Kentucky.

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Fort Defiance (Illinois)

Fort Defiance, known as Camp Defiance during the American Civil War, is a former military fortification located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers near Cairo in Alexander County, Illinois.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Illinois Department of Transportation

The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) is a state agency in charge of state-maintained public roadways of the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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List of crossings of the Upper Mississippi River

This is a list of all current and notable former bridges or other crossings of the Upper Mississippi River which begins at the Mississippi River's source and extends to its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Illinois.

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Malden Regional Airport

Malden Regional Airport is a city owned, public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) north of the central business district of Malden, a city in Dunklin County, Missouri, United States.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Mississippi River

The Mississippi River is the chief river of the second-largest drainage system on the North American continent, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.

The Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., also known as Missouri Valley Bridge Company, was a firm that built many bridges.

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North American T-28 Trojan

The North American Aviation T-28 Trojan is a piston-engined military trainer aircraft used by the United States Air Force and United States Navy beginning in the 1950s.

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Ohio River

The Ohio River, which streams westward from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cairo, Illinois, is the largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River in the United States.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Pusher (boat)

A pusher, pusher craft, pusher boat, pusher tug, or towboat, is a boat designed for pushing barges or car floats.

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River mouth

A river mouth is the part of a river where the river flows into another river, a lake, a reservoir, a sea, or an ocean.

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Semi-trailer truck

A semi-trailer truck (more commonly semi truck or simply "semi") is the combination of a tractor unit and one or more semi-trailers to carry freight.

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Slavery in the United States

Slavery in the United States was the legal institution of human chattel enslavement, primarily of Africans and African Americans, that existed in the United States of America in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Sultana (steamboat)

Sultana was a Mississippi River side-wheel steamboat.

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain is an 1876 novel about a young boy growing up along the Mississippi River.

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Toll bridge

A toll bridge is a bridge where a monetary charge (or "toll") is required to pass over.

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Truck driver

A truck driver (commonly referred to as a trucker, teamster or driver in the United States and Canada; a truckie in Australia and New Zealand; a lorry driver, or driver in Ireland, the United Kingdom, India, Nepal and Pakistan) is a person who earns a living as the driver of a truck (usually a semi truck, box truck or dump truck).

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Truss bridge

A truss bridge is a bridge whose load-bearing superstructure is composed of a truss, a structure of connected elements usually forming triangular units.

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U.S. Route 60

U.S. Route 60 (US 60) is an east–west United States highway, traveling from southwestern Arizona to the Atlantic coast in Virginia.

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U.S. Route 62

U.S. Route 62 or U.S. Highway 62 (US 62) runs from the Mexico-US border at El Paso, Texas, to Niagara Falls, New York, near the Canada–US border.

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Union Army

During the American Civil War, the Union Army referred to the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states.

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2011 Mississippi River floods

The Mississippi River floods in April and May 2011 were among the largest and most damaging recorded along the U.S. waterway in the past century, comparable in extent to the major floods of 1927 and 1993.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Mississippi_River_Bridge

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