Dauphin Island Bridge

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The Dauphin Island Bridge, formally the Gordon Persons Bridge, carries a 3-mile (4.8 km), two-lane section of Alabama Highway 193 from the mainland south of Mobile, across the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and down to Dauphin Island. The natural channel followed by the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway at this location is Pass Aux Herons. The bridge separates the Mississippi Sound on the west from Mobile Bay on the east.

The original bridge opened on 02 July 1955.[2] It was destroyed by Hurricane Frederic in 1979 and was replaced by a fixed precast concrete segmental bridge in 1982. The central main span was the first use of a 400-foot (122 m) span on a precast concrete segmental bridge.[1]
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dauphin_Island_Bridge
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Coordinates:   30°17'25"N   88°7'49"W
This article was last modified 18 years ago