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William Brown was headed west from Mount Pleasant, Iowa in the California Gold Rush of 1849 when he decided to stay in Council Bluffs. In 1850 he outfitted a flat boat with oars and obtained a charter from the Pottawatomie County Commissioners to operate a ferry across the Missouri River, at which point he also illegally staked out 160 acres (0 ...
After the Chicago and North Western Railway reached Council Bluffs in 1867, the Union Pacific for a while tried to run freight trains across the frozen river during the winter. [citation needed] The Union Pacific Transfer company maintained a ferry service from 1866 to 1872. [2] The bridge became the property of the UP when it absorbed the C&NW ...
The South Omaha Veterans Memorial Bridge (originally the South Omaha Bridge but renamed the Veterans Memorial Bridge in 1995) was a continuous warren through truss bridge over the Missouri River connecting Omaha, Nebraska with Council Bluffs, Iowa via U.S. Highway 275. The new South Omaha Veterans Memorial Bridge from south on Nebraska side.
The first Council Bluff (which is singular) was on the Nebraska side of the river at Fort Atkinson, about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of the city of Council Bluffs.It was named by Lewis and Clark for a bluff where they met the Otoe people on August 2, 1804.
This segment is officially called Reichmuth Road in Douglas County and Bell Street in Fremont. Prior to July 1, 2003, US 275 followed a winding two-lane road between Council Bluffs and Glenwood, Iowa. The segment moved to a concurrency with US 34 and I-29 that day as part of a mass decommissioning of highways in Iowa.
US 34 Missouri River Bridge US 34: Near Bellevue, Nebraska and Glenwood, Iowa: Bellevue Bridge: Former N-370 Former Iowa 370: Bellevue, Nebraska: South Omaha Veterans Memorial Bridge (Old bridge was replaced in 2010) US 275 N-92 Iowa 92: Omaha and Council Bluffs
Originally called the Douglas Street Bridge, the bridge was built by the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company in 1888 at a cost of $500,000. It was designed to handle streetcars and replaced a ferry service that had opened in 1854. [ 1 ]
The city of Council Bluffs, Iowa (originally "Kanesville") derives its name from the hills based on the Lewis and Clark first formal "council", or meeting, with Native Americans in 1804, although the meeting with the Oto and Missouri tribe actually took place on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River at Fort Atkinson. Sgt.