Lincoln Memorial Bridge - Vincennes, IN
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cldisme
N 38° 40.840 W 087° 32.053
16S E 453533 N 4281476
Adjacent to the George Rogers Clark Memorial is a memorial bridge for the Thomas Lincoln family - including Abraham Lincoln - moving from Indiana to Illinois.
Waymark Code: WMBX20
Location: Indiana, United States
Date Posted: 06/29/2011
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1. The LINCOLN MEMORIAL BRIDGE, Vigo St. and Wabash River, a concrete structure of seven spandrel arches built 1931 by Indiana, Illinois, and the Federal Government, is an impressive link of the Lincoln National Memorial Highway from Hodgenville, Kentucky, to Springfield, Illinois. In 1938 a suitable memorial, commemorating the passage of the Lincoln family across the Wabash here in the migration from Indiana to Illinois in 1830, was completed just off the Illinois end of the bridge. In the stone wall at the foot of the stairway on the south end of the Indiana approach, an integral part of the landscaped 18-acre George Rogers Clark Memorial Plaza, are three massive granite tablets with inscriptions summarizing the history of Vincennes and the Old Northwest.
Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State (1941) - Page 276 - Vincennes
Today, the bridge has virtually remained the same as described thanks to a
overhaul in 1992.