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The bridge, named for the first governor of Maryland, Thomas Johnson, saw construction start in 1972 and opened to traffic on December 17, 1977. The bridge, carrying an average of 33,000 vehicles a day on Maryland Route 4 (MD 4), is one of two crossings of the Patuxent River in Southern Maryland (the other is the Benedict Bridge approximately ...
Chesapeake Bay Bridge (William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge), Anne Arundel County to Queen Anne's County; Chesapeake City Bridge, Chesapeake City; Francis Scott Key Bridge, Baltimore; Governor Harry W. Nice Memorial Bridge, Charles County to Dahlgren, Virginia; Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge. Connecting Calvert County to Saint Marys County
Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge: Patuxent River: 1977: Maryland: High Bridge (Aqueduct Bridge) Harlem River: 1848 / 1927: New York: Israel LaFleur Bridge: Calcasieu River: 1962: Louisiana: West Seattle Bridge: Duwamish Waterway: 1984 Washington: 139 ft (42.4 m) New Tappan Zee Bridge (Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge) Hudson River: 2017: New York ...
Future Virginia governor Joseph Johnson was said to have seen the bridge as a port and named the town as such. [5] Others claim that the town name was meant to be "Bridge Fort," for the two forts built by early settlers, but the name was changed to Bridgeport after a mapmaker mislabeled it. [6] Bridgeport was chartered in 1816 and incorporated ...
After the Governor Thomas Johnson Bridge opened in the late 1970s, MD 4 was extended west from Solomons to Leonardtown. MD 4 has been upgraded to a divided highway for most of its length, beginning in the early 1960s from Washington, reaching Solomons in the mid-1980s, and expected to continue into St. Mary's County in the future.
This 1,850-foot-long (560 m) concrete bridge, which had a roadway width of 22 feet (6.7 m) and a steel bascule draw with a horizontal clearance of 75 feet (23 m), replaced a narrow one-lane bridge. The entire length of the Baltimore–Annapolis Boulevard was widened to 22 feet (6.7 m) with a pair of 3-foot (0.91 m) wide concrete shoulders by 1927.
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Thomas Johnson (November 4, 1732 – October 26, 1819) was an 18th-century American lawyer, politician, and patriot. [2] He was a delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774, where he signed the Continental Association; commander of the Maryland militia in 1776; and elected first (non-Colonial) governor of Maryland in 1777.