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The New River Tunnel, officially known as the Henry E. Kinney Tunnel, is a highway tunnel that carries U.S. Route 1 underneath the New River and Las Olas Boulevard in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The tunnel replaced the Federal Aid Highway Bridge , a drawbridge opened on August 26, 1926, and closed in 1958.
The settlers fled the area with the start of the Second Seminole War, and the U.S. Army built a series of forts called Fort Lauderdale near the river. The first fort was where the North and South Forks joined. The fort was later moved to Tarpon Bend, and then to the barrier island near present-day Bahia Mar. A trading post established in the ...
Third Avenue Bridge, Fort Lauderdale; Andrews Avenue Bridge, Fort Lauderdale; William H. Marshall Bridge, Southwest 4th Avenue / Southwest 7th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale; Snow-Reed Swing Bridge, Southwest 11th Avenue over North Fork, Fort Lauderdale; Davie Boulevard Bridge, SR 736 over South Fork, Fort Lauderdale; State Road 84 Bridge, SR 84 over ...
Frank and Ivy Stranahan, founding pioneers of Fort Lauderdale and the first residents of Las Olas Boulevard. Their trading post Stranahan House is located between the boulevard and New River. Ivy established the first public school in Ft. Lauderdale and later donated the land which would eventually become Stranahan High School. [7]
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — One person was killed and two others were hospitalized Thursday afternoon when a section of crane fell from a building in downtown Fort Lauderdale, officials said.
The Edison Bridge seen in the foreground, with the Caloosahatchee River Bridge in the background and downtown Fort Myers to the left The Isaiah D. Hart Bridge , as seen from TIAA Bank Field While the Courtney Campbell Causeway itself is almost 10 mi (16.1km) long, its longest over-water span (center-left) is just over one half-mile (804.7m) long.