The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge carries
U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs from Key West, Florida, north to Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, making i ...
and
U.S. Route 301 (
Jefferson Davis Highway
The Jefferson Davis Highway, also known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, was a planned transcontinental highway in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s that began in Arlington, Virginia, and extended south and west to San Diego, Cal ...
) across the
Appomattox River
The Appomattox River is a tributary of the James River, approximately long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 in central and eastern Virginia in the United ...
at the
Atlantic Seaboard fall line. It joins
Colonial Heights and
Petersburg, Virginia
Petersburg is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 33,458. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines Petersburg (along with the city of Colonial Heights) with Din ...
.
Originally constructed for an
interurban streetcar
The Interurban (or radial railway in Europe and Canada) is a type of electric railway, with streetcar-like electric self-propelled rail cars which run within and between cities or towns. They were very prevalent in North America between 1900 a ...
service in the early 20th century, it was rebuilt in the 1990s and is toll-free.
See also
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List of memorials to Martin Luther King Jr.
This is a list of memorials to Martin Luther King Jr.
United States
There are numerous memorials to King in the United States, including:
Memorial sites
* In 1980, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated King's boyhood home in Atlant ...
References
External links
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Bridges of the United States Numbered Highway System
Historic American Engineering Record in Virginia
Road bridges in Virginia
Railroad bridges in Virginia
Transportation in Petersburg, Virginia
U.S. Route 1
U.S. Route 301
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