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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.
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.
abandoned rail bridge: Western Maryland Railway abandoned rail bridge: Western Maryland Railway US 522 Bridge US 522: Morgan County / Hancock: Lurgan Subdivision Bridge CSX Lurgan Subdivision: US 11 Bridge US 11: Falling Waters / Williamsport: I-81 Potomac River Bridge I-81: Falling Waters / Williamsport Railroad Bridge Berkeley County ...
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]
DC-28: Pierce Mill Bridge Extant Steel built-up girder: 1895 1992 Tilden Street, NW Rock Creek: DC-29: Sixteenth Street Bridge Extant Reinforced concrete closed-spandrel arch: 1910 1992 16th Street, NW: Piney Branch and Piney Branch Parkway, NW
The Arlington Memorial Bridge, often shortened to Memorial Bridge, is a Neoclassical masonry, steel, and stone arch bridge with a central bascule (or drawbridge) that crosses the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. First proposed in 1886, the bridge went unbuilt for decades thanks to political quarrels over ...
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The bridges convey Interstate 695 across the Anacostia to its southern terminus at Interstate 295 and DC 295. [1] The bridges also connect the neighborhood of Anacostia with the rest of the city of Washington. [1] The first bridge at the site, constructed about 1800, played a role in the War of 1812. It burned in 1846, but was repaired.