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Edmund Pettus Bridge
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Overview
The Edmund Pettus Bridge, perhaps, is the most famous (or infamous) bridge in Alabama history to this day. The bridge is the site of the historic civil rights conflicts known as the Selma to Montgomery Marches and "Bloody Sunday."
Photo taken by James McCray
Facts
- Overview
- Steel through arch bridge over Alabama River on US 80 in Selma
- Location
- Selma, Dallas County, Alabama
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1940
- Design
- Steel through arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 250.0 ft.
Total length: 1,248.1 ft.
Deck width: 42.3 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 15.3 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on February 27, 2013
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +32.40547, -87.01864 (decimal degrees)
32°24'20" N, 87°01'07" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/498247/3585380 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Selma
- Inventory numbers
- AL 2273 (Alabama bridge number)
NRHP 13000281 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 10106 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 03/2011)
- Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Functionally obsolete
Sufficiency rating: 43.2 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2009)
- 18,590
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