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The bridge's name comes from a large shoal, or rocky rapids, called the Chain of Rocks, which made that stretch of the Mississippi extremely dangerous to navigate. [4] Because of a low-water dam built by the Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s, little of the Chain of Rocks is visible today except during extreme low water conditions. [5]
Chain Bridge: 1856, 1857 ... Multi-span Pennsylvania truss: City Line Avenue Bridge: 1913 June 22, 1988: Philadelphia ... McKees Rocks Bridge: 1931
Burfordville Covered Bridge: 1858 1970-05-19 Burfordville: Cape Girardeau: Howe truss: Chain of Rocks Bridge: 1929, 1936 2006-12-01 St. Louis: St. Louis City: Warrant Truss Crowder State Park Vehicle Bridge: ca. 1939: 1985-03-04 Trenton
Chouteau Island is accessed by car only from Illinois via the Canal Bridge, a one-lane vehicular bridge that crosses the Chain of Rocks Canal. From Missouri, visitors may reach the Island by foot or bicycle traffic via U.S. Route 66's Old Chain of Rocks Bridge. Chouteau Island is a key part of the Confluence Greenway, a regional recreation ...
Chain of Rocks Bridge Demolished Pratt truss: 1893 1997 CR 899 Cuivre River: Chain of Rocks: Lincoln: MO-107: Newman Bridge Replaced Reinforced concrete girder: 1917 1997 NE 500 Road Tebo Creek west fork Calhoun: Henry
Structural Study of Pennsylvania Historic Bridges 1997 Structural analyses of Campbell's Bridge, Upper Bridge at Slate Run, and Frankford Avenue Bridge over Poquessing Creek: Harrisburg: Dauphin: PA-479: Breslau Bridge Demolished Parker truss: 1914 1998 Hanover Street North Branch Susquehanna River: Plymouth: Luzerne
Chain of Rocks Park (CoR) was an amusement park located in the St. Louis, Missouri area. CoR opened in 1927 and ceased operation in 1978. CoR opened in 1927 and ceased operation in 1978. The park was situated across from the Chain of Rocks Bridge .
Chain of Rocks Lock and Dam, also known as Locks No. 27, is a lock situated at the southern end of Chouteau Island near St. Louis, Missouri on the Upper Mississippi River. Its associated dam is just downstream of the Chain of Rocks Bridge , and the lock is located over 3 miles (4.8 km) southeast on the Chain of Rocks canal.