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The Caruthersville Bridge is a single tower cantilever bridge carrying Interstate 155 and U.S. Route 412 across the Mississippi River between Caruthersville, Missouri, and Dyersburg, Tennessee. Completed in 1976, it is the only bridge that connects Missouri and Tennessee, and the northernmost bridge on the Lower Mississippi River . [ 1 ]
The bridge was built by the Vincennes Bridge Company. Surveys began in 1933, construction started in December 1934, and the bridge was opened to traffic on May 14, 1936. [ 3 ] It was named after Cordell Hull , who served as the 47th United States Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944. [ 4 ]
In Tennessee, U.S. Route 412 (US 412) stretches for 181.93 miles (292.79 km) through the farmland of West Tennessee and the hills of Middle Tennessee, starting at the Missouri state line (on I-155 at the Mississippi River) near Dyersburg and running to an interchange between I-65 and SR 99 in Columbia. [1] [2]
For the next two weeks the Tennessee Department of Transportation will be repairing the I-75 bridge over the Tennessee River near mile marker 74 in Loudon County.
The U.S. Department of Transportation is providing nearly $400 million to build a new Interstate 55 bridge connecting Tennessee and Arkansas across the Mississippi River, replacing the existing 75 ...
The longest auxiliary Interstate Highway in Tennessee is I-840, an outer southern bypass around Nashville, at a length of 77.28 miles (124.37 km). The shortest Interstate Highway in Tennessee is the 1.97 miles (3.17 km) I-124 in Chattanooga, which is unsigned; the shortest signed Interstate Highway is I-275 in Knoxville, at 2.98 miles (4.80 km ...
[7] [8] Steel erection was completed on March 31, 1954, and the bridge was dedicated and opened to traffic on October 15, 1954, in a ceremony officially naming it for Thrasher. [9] [10] The bridge was constructed with two traffic lanes and sidewalks, but was designed to be expanded to four lanes. It was officially christened the "Wilkes T ...
The bridge over Nolichucky River collapsed Sept. 27 after remnants of Hurricane Helene swept it away in East Tennessee. Nobody was hurt in the Kisner Bridge collapse, as all bridges over the river ...