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The Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge is a through arch bridge that carries South Capitol Street over the Anacostia River in Washington, D.C. It was completed in 2021 and replaced an older swing bridge that was completed in 1950 as the South Capitol Street Bridge. In 1965, the original bridge was renamed after abolitionist Frederick Douglass. [2]
Highway Bridge between 1906 and 1932 Looking towards Highway Bridge and Washington in 1932. A new swing-span through-truss bridge called the Highway Bridge or sometimes the 14th Street Bridge, 500 feet (150 m) upriver from the Long Bridge, opened December 15, 1906, to serve streetcars and other non-railroad traffic. [20] [30]
The first bridge at this location was the "Washington Bridge", a wooden toll bridge. The Washington Bridge Company was authorized on February 5, 1808, by the District Commissioners and an Act of Congress with the purpose of shortening the distance in the country's main mail route. [5] [6] President Thomas Jefferson signed it into law soon after.
George Washington Parkway north: Westbound exit only: I-66 west (Theodore Roosevelt Bridge west) Western end of I-66 concurrency; westbound exit and eastbound entrance: 0.2– 0.5: 0.32– 0.80: Eastern end of Theodore Roosevelt Bridge: Foggy Bottom: Independence Avenue: Eastbound exit and westbound entrance: 0.6: 0.97: I-66 east / E Street ...
In the early 1950s planners recognized the need to connect the planned Southwest Freeway in DC with Shirley Highway in Arlington to serve as part of the inner loop. This would require new bridges across the Potomac and the Washington Channel. The original 1952 proposal was to build a bridge in a straight line from 10th an F to Roaches Run.
HAER DC-697, pp. 92, 98, NPS Earlier bridges on the site were built ca. 1933 and ca. 1943. Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge: Pennsylvania Avenue: 1915–16 276 feet HAER DC-21. Portions of the earlier bridge, built 1858–60, are encased inside the current bridge
The Chain Bridge is a viaduct that crosses the Potomac River at Little Falls in Washington, D.C., and Arlington County, Virginia. The steel girder bridge carries close to 22,000 cars a day. [2] It connects Washington, D.C. with affluent sections of Arlington and Fairfax counties in Virginia. On the Washington, D.C. side, the bridge connects ...
The Francis Scott Key Bridge, more commonly known as the Key Bridge, is a six-lane reinforced concrete arch bridge carrying U.S. Route 29 (US 29) across the Potomac River between the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia, and the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Completed in 1923, it is Washington's oldest surviving road bridge across the Potomac River.