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BRIDGES AND
TUNNELS OF
ALLEGHENY COUNTY,
PENNSYLVANIA

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HAER
Pittsburgh Bridges at the Point

01 Cover Page

02 Foreword

03 Chronology

04 Jones' Ferry

05 Early Pgh
   Bridges

06 Early Proposals

07 Union Bridge
   1875

08 Point Bridge
   1877

09 Point Bridge
   1927

10 Union Bridge
   problems

11 Manchester
   Bridge 1915

12 Fort Pitt and
   Fort Duquesne
   Bridges

13 Brady St Bridge
   1896

14 Footnotes

15 List of
   illustrations

Pittsburgh Bridges at the Point
Historic American Engineering Record PA-3, PA-4, PA-5
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CHRONOLOGY
Bridges at the Point

Union Bridge (across the Allegheny River)
Begun - 1874
Opened to traffic - 1875
Demolished - May, 1907

Point Bridge I (across the Monongahela River)
Begun - July, 1875
Opened to traffic - April, 1877
Demolished - 1927

Manchester Bridge (across the Allegheny)
Begun - April, 1911
Opened to traffic - August, 1915
Demolished - summer and autumn, 1970

Point Bridge II (across the Monongahela)
Begun - April, 1925
Opened to traffic - June, 1927
Demolished - spring and summer, 1970

Fort Pitt Bridge (across the Monongahela)
Begun - July, 1953
Opened to traffic - 19 June, 1959

Fort Duquesne Bridge (across the Allegheny)
Begun - July, 1958
Main span and approaches completed - April, 1963
Opened to traffic - 16 October, 1969

South Twenty-Second Street Bridge (Brady Street Bridge) (across the Monongahela)
Begun - March, 1895
Opened to traffic - March, 1896
[Demolished - 29 May, 1978]

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Last modified on 17-Sep-99
Design format: copyright 1997-1999 Bruce S. Cridlebaugh
HAER Text: James D. Van Trump, 1973