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The Hernando Desoto Bridge

Friday, 20th May 2005 by Alex

Another super-cool bridge shadow here, belonging to the Hernando Desoto Bridge. Built in 1972 it carries the I-40 across the Mississippi River in Memphis (it’s actually right next to the previously posted Memphis Pyramid). Memphis has a total of four bridges that cross the Mississippi. Top to bottom in our second image they are The Harahan, The Frisco and The Memphis-Arkansas. Steve Cox has a cool ground-level tour of these bridges on his site.

I-40 Mississippi Bridges

Props to Justin for this one :-)

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3 Responses to 'The Hernando Desoto Bridge'

  1. 1. Chuck Cheeze says: May 20th, 2005 at 10:56 pm

    I went to high school in Millington, about 25 minutes N of here. My parents are driving back to PA (from CA) this week for a family reunion and went across the DeSoto today into Memphis and up to pur old stomping grounds. They were loving it!

  2. 2. jeanne Kochuyt says: January 7th, 2007 at 5:16 pm

    I too use to live in Millington and Munford. that bridge is awsome and sooo cool to see as always

  3. 3. nysia says: October 15th, 2007 at 8:44 pm

    this is a pretty good article on this bris=dge i’m a 8th grode student at northeast middle school in minneapolis minnesota and im doing a project on this bridge so this website gives me a pretty goood start

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