Hanover Street Bridge

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Coordinates: 39°15′28.0″N 76°36′58.6″W / 39.257778°N 76.616278°W / 39.257778; -76.616278
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Hanover Street Bridge
double leaf bascule bridge
Total length2,290 feet (698 m)
History
DesignerJ. E. Greiner Company
Opened1916
Location
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The Hanover Street Bridge, officially the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge, is a

Baltimore, Maryland
.

Description

The Hanover Street Bridge is a 2,290 feet (698 m)-long

spans.[2][3][4]

History

1882 map of the Light Street Bridge, which the Hanover Street Bridge replaced.

The Hanover Street Bridge replaced the

Maryland State Roads Commission, becoming the longest reinforced concrete bridge in Maryland at its opening in 1916.[2][3]

The bridge's construction spurred residential and industrial growth in the area, causing the waterfront on the middle branch Patapsco River to be zoned for heavy industry and manufacturing. This made the waterway accumulate silt, causing it to be less viable for shipping, and erasing the previous recreational area around the river.[2]

Around late 1992, a group of

Huey helicopters flew overhead and a fireboat shot water into the air.[8] Around the late 1990s, a makeshift tent city of homeless people had developed under the bridge.[9]

After the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse on March 26, 2024, the Hanover Street Bridge became a secondary alternate route for drivers, and a primary alternate route for trucks containing hazardous loads, which are not permitted to use the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel or the Fort McHenry Tunnel.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Highway Location Reference: Baltimore City" (PDF). Maryland State Highway Administration. 2005. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 14, 2011. Retrieved December 11, 2011.
  2. ^
    JSTOR 43324376 – via JSTOR
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  3. ^ a b "Hanover Street Bridge". Maryland State Highway Administration. Archived from the original on January 10, 2006. Retrieved March 30, 2024.
  4. ^ Bruder, Anne (September 2011). "'Tomorrow's Roads Today': Expressway Construction in Maryland, 1948–1965" (PDF). Maryland State Highway Administration. p. 20. Archived (PDF) from the original on December 7, 2023. Retrieved March 30, 2024.
  5. ISBN 9780801879807
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  6. ^ Reazer, Brandy; Yager, Scott (2009). "Island Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (H. Milton Wagner, et al. v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, 1956)". Legal History Publications. Archived from the original on November 30, 2023. Retrieved March 30, 2024.
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  9. ^ Hermann, Peter (December 18, 1996). "Suspect in slaying says he killed 2 others; police searches yield no evidence for claims". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved March 31, 2024.
  10. ISSN 0190-8286
    . Retrieved April 2, 2024.
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