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Jefferson Barracks Bridge

 
Jefferson Barracks Bridge, I 255;US 50, Columbia, IL 63125, United States of America
Address is taken from a point 404 yards away.
 
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The nearest place in the direction of Mississippi - Illinois Junction is MacArthur Bridge (St. Louis); 11.63 miles away.
 
The nearest place in the direction of Mississippi - Ohio Junction is Mississippi - Meramec Junction (Junction of the Mississippi River with the Meramec River ); 9 miles away.

Mooring here is unrated.

There is a bridge here which takes a motorway over the canal.

 
 
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Wikipedia has a page about Jefferson Barracks Bridge

The Jefferson Barracks Bridge, officially the Jefferson Barracks Memorial Arch Bridge, is a pair of bridges across the Mississippi River on the south side of St. Louis, Missouri metropolitan area. Each bridge is 3,998 feet (1,219 m) long with a 909-foot (277 m) long arch bridge spanning the shipping channel. The northern bridge was built in 1983, and the southern opened in 1992. A delay occurred during the construction of the southern bridge when a crane dropped a section of it into the river and it had to be rebuilt.

The original Jefferson Barracks Bridge was a steel truss toll bridge that carried U.S. Route 50. Construction on that bridge began on August 5, 1942, and it opened two years later. A toll was charged until 1959, when the construction bonds were paid off. Prior to the construction of the original bridge, river crossings in this area were made via the Davis Street Ferry in the Carondelet neighborhood of St. Louis.

The current bridge carries traffic for both Interstate 255 (part of the St. Louis beltway) and U.S. Route 50. However, I-255 itself was not built until a few years after the northern bridge opened in 1983.

The names comes from the nearby Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, itself originally part of the large Jefferson Barracks military complex, established in 1826 and decommissioned in 1946.

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[Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery] Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery is an American military cemetery located in St. Louis County, Missouri, just on the banks of the Mississippi River [Crescent City Connection] area, those being the Poplar Street Bridge, the Jefferson Barracks Bridge, and the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge. What later became known as the Crescent [U.S. Route 50 in Illinois] state. It runs from the Jefferson Barracks Bridge over the Mississippi River to Missouri east to the Red Skelton Memorial Bridge over the Wabash River to [Columbia, Illinois] Louis's urban sprawl from South St. Louis County across the Jefferson Barracks Bridge into the heart of the formerly rural Monroe County. As of the [Monroe County, Illinois] the J.B. bridge as well as Downtown St. Louis and western St. Clair County U.S. Highway 50 Overlaps Interstate 255 From Jefferson Barracks Bridge and Missouri [Interstate 255] at Lemay Ferry Road. It crosses the Mississippi River on the Jefferson Barracks Bridge, enters Illinois, and then turns northeast. There is a junction [U.S. Route 50] of Jefferson City. The road continues as a four-lane divided highway into Jefferson City where it joins US 63 just south of the Missouri River Bridge. It [Transportation in Greater St. Louis] Rocks Bridge (former US 66) Clark Bridge Daniel Boone Bridge Discovery Bridge Eads Bridge Jefferson Barracks Bridge Lewis Bridge MacArthur Bridge Martin [Koch, Missouri] Koch Hospital was located just off US 255 before it crosses the Jefferson Barracks Bridge in south county at 4101 Koch Road. The hospital was built by the
 
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