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Crossing Carries or connects Location Built Length Notes Coordinates Charlestown Bridge: Route 99 (N. Washington St) Boston to Charlestown: 1900 331.9 meters (1,089 ft) The MBTA Orange Line used this bridge, before the upstream tunnel was completed in 1975. Site of a ferry established in 1630; obsoleted by the Charles River Bridge, built 1786
New Albany and Louisville. 1912. 38°16′57″N 85°48′05″W. / 38.28250°N 85.80139°W / 38.28250; -85.80139. McAlpine Locks and Dam (Only to Shippingport Island, not all the way across river) New Albany and Louisville. ( Falls of the Ohio) 1830. 38°16′41″N 85°47′25″W / .
Union Pacific Railroad, Big River Crossing Bike/Pedestrian Trail 1916 35°07′45″N 90°04′33″W / 35.12917°N 90.07583°W / 35.12917; -90.07583 ( Harahan Bridge
Ford L&N Bridge (closed) L&N Kentucky River Bridge. CSX Transportation. Joseph Proctor Memorial Bridge. KY 499. Irvine and West Irvine. Captain Zachary Chase Clevenger Memorial Bridge. KY 52. Heidelberg Bridge.
The Kentucky River is a tributary of the Ohio River in Kentucky, United States. The 260-mile (420 km) river and its tributaries drain much of eastern and central Kentucky, passing through the Eastern Coalfield, the Cumberland Mountains, and the Bluegrass region. [2] Its watershed encompasses about 7,000 square miles (18,000 km 2 ), and it ...
Devil's Backbone is a rock formation and peninsula formed by the flow of Fourteen Mile Creek into the Ohio River, and is currently situated in Charlestown State Park near Charlestown, Indiana and across the Ohio River from Louisville, Kentucky. According to local legend, on this bedrock ridge once stood a stone fortress that was built by Welsh ...
The course of the Wilderness Road by 1785. The Wilderness Road was one of two principal routes used by colonial and early national era settlers to reach Kentucky from the East. Although this road goes through the Cumberland Gap into southern Kentucky and northern Tennessee, the other (more northern route) is sometimes called the "Cumberland ...
A view of the Ohio River from Charlestown State Park. ... Back in 2006, workers at the park were building a new boat ramp when a Native American cooking area was found that dated back to 2000 BC.