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Benjamin G. Humphreys Bridge, very modern in its time, was a two lane, steel cantilevered truss bridge that carried US 82/278 over the Mississippi River, and connected the towns of Lake Village, Arkansas and Greenville, Mississippi by road for the first time. Prior to the bridge, local vehicles
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design and had a span of 840 feet (260 meters). Until 1943, this was the longest bridge for vehicles on the
Mississippi River. Over time, the bridge supported increasing volumes of highway traffic and vehicles hitting the bridge. In the 1950s, an Air Force plane crashed into the bridge. Though the
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US 82 Association was formed to raise funds for the bridge. In 1937, Milton C. Smith (the mayor at that time) worked with John A. Fox, (the secretary of the
Washington County Chamber of Commerce), to get Congress to pass a law authorizing the bridge. The bill authorizing the bridge was signed into
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explored alternatives to upgrading the crossing of US 82 and issued a report that explored a four-lane crossing at
Greenville. It concluded the best of several alternatives it identified was to build a new bridge 0.5 miles (0.80 km) downriver from the old one and to remove the old bridge.
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October 4, 1940, to great fanfare. Its main span width was 840 feet (260 m), the highway bridge with the longest span on the Mississippi River. The width of the roadway was 24 feet (7.3 m)—two lanes of 12 feet (3.7 m) each with no
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and barges had difficulty making the sharp turn and regaining their course in time to avoid a collision with the bridge. Over the years many have not been able to make the turn quickly and have hit it. The bridge had become a danger to river traffic.
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to fund the estimated $ 4.5 million it would take to build the bridge. The Works
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