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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 ...
St. Paul, Minneapolis, & Manitoba Railway Company Shops Historic District ... Wabasha Street Bridge: Wabasha Street Bridge. November 6, 1989 (#89001834) June 22, 1998 ...
In June 1998, the St. Paul City Council approved the renaming from Osborn Plaza and Capital Centre Plaza to Ecolab Plaza in recognition of the company's sizable presence along Wabasha Street and ...
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 ...
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.
The Robert Street Bridge is a reinforced concrete multiple-arch bridge that spans the Mississippi River in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States.The bridge is notable for its complex design that was required to accommodate river traffic, the St. Paul Union Pacific Vertical-lift Rail Bridge crossing underneath it at an angle, and roadways on the downtown side of St. Paul.
72 feet (with span lifted) History. Opened. 1913. Location. The St. Paul Union Pacific Vertical-lift Rail Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge that spans the Mississippi River in downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is one of only three vertical-lift bridges along the Mississippi River, along with the Hastings Rail Bridge in Hastings ...