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The Wabasha Street Bridge is a segmental bridge that spans the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. It was named Wabasha Street Freedom Bridge in 2002, to commemorate the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks. [1] It actually consists of two separate bridges, one for northbound and one for southbound traffic.
Saint Paul was incorporated as a city in 1854, and in 1858, Minnesota was admitted as the 32nd state of the union with Saint Paul becoming the capital. Natural geography played a role in the settlement and development of Saint Paul as a trade and transportation center. The Mississippi River valley in the area surrounding the city is defined by ...
The bridge carries two lanes of street traffic over the river and is the highest bridge in St. Paul, with a deck height of 160 ft (49 m) and a clearance below of 149 ft (45 m). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The current bridge replaced a 2,770-foot-long (840 m) iron Warren deck truss bridge constructed in 1889.
Here it passes under a succession of bridges, the Wabasha Street Bridge, St. Paul Union Pacific Vertical-lift Rail Bridge, the Robert Street Bridge, and east of the city center, the Lafayette Bridge. In downtown, next to the Saint Paul Union Depot, the road's name changes from Shepard Road to Warner Road. As Warner Road heads east, it is ...
St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District ... Wabasha Street Bridge: Wabasha Street Bridge. November 6, 1989 (#89001834) June 22, 1998 ...
Saint Paul: Ramsey: Warren truss Wabasha Street Bridge: 1890, 1900 1989-11-06 removed 1998-06-22 Saint Paul: Ramsey: Cantilever deck truss Yellow Bank Church Campground Bridge: 1893 1989-11-06 removed 1998-06-30 Odessa: Lac qui Parle: Through truss
The Hunt Hill Bridge is grouped with other well known landmarks like the Golden State Bridge in San Francisco and the London Bridge in Arizona. Unlike its older predecessors, the Margaret Hunt ...
Wabasha Street Bridge in St. Paul, Minnesota This page was last edited on 30 December 2019, at 19:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...