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The Ohio River at Cairo is 281,500 cu ft/s (7,960 m 3 /s); [1] and the Mississippi River at Thebes, Illinois, which is upstream of the confluence, is 208,200 cu ft/s (5,897 m 3 /s). [66] The Ohio River flow is greater than that of the Mississippi River, so hydrologically the Ohio River is the main stream of the river system.
1861 – Memphis and Ohio Railroad completed. [10] 1862 Tennessee capital relocated to Memphis from Nashville. [3] June 6: First Battle of Memphis takes place on Mississippi River near town; Union forces take Memphis. [3] 1864 August 21: Second Battle of Memphis. First National Bank of Memphis established. [7] 1866 May: Racial unrest.
Henderson Bridge (Ohio River) CSX Transportation: Union Township and Henderson: 1932 Bi-State Vietnam Gold Star Bridges: US 41: Evansville and Henderson (crosses the river entirely within the state of Kentucky at this point) 1932, 1965
Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio Railroad: SOU: 1852 1894 N/A Sold at foreclosure; no property in Tennessee Beaver Dam Railroad: 1900 1918 N/A Belt Railway of Chattanooga: SOU: 1895 1946 Alabama Great Southern Railroad: Birmingham and Northwestern Railway: GM&O: 1910 1929 Gulf, Mobile and Northern Railroad: Bon Air Railway: L&N: 1887 1887
The Big Four Bridge is a six-span truss bridge that crosses the Ohio River, connecting Louisville, Kentucky, and Jeffersonville, Indiana.It was completed in 1895, updated in 1929, taken out of rail service in 1968, and converted to bicycle and pedestrian use in 2013.
This is the spring Memphis has waited 100 years for. A century ago, in 1924, legendary urban planner Harland Bartholomew, in our city’s first comprehensive plan, challenged Memphis to do more ...
The Brookport Bridge (officially the Paducah-Brookport Bridge 1929–43, and the Irvin S. Cobb Bridge since 1943) is a ten-span, steel deck (grate), narrow two-lane truss bridge that carries U.S. Route 45 (US 45) across the Ohio River in the U.S. states of Illinois and Kentucky. It connects Paducah, Kentucky, north to Brookport, Illinois. [2]
June 16 – Otto E. Funk, 62, ends his marathon walk (New York City to San Francisco, 4,165 miles in 183 days). June 21 – An agreement brokered by U.S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow ends the Cristero War in Mexico.