Edmund Pettus Bridge

32.405555555556 - 87.018611111111Koordinaten: 32 ° 24 ' 20 " N, 87 ° 1' 7" W

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U.S. Highway 80

Alabama River

The Edmund Pettus Bridge is a bridge that carries U.S. Highway 80 in Selma (Alabama ) over the Alabama River. Built in 1940, the bridge is named after General Edmund Winston Pettus, a former Brigadier General of the Confederate Army and U.S. Senator from Alabama. The bridge is designed as a steel arch bridge with 76 m span. It became known as the place where the police on March 7, 1965, the first Selma -to- Montgomery march was staying.

2007 took an average of 17,950 vehicles per day the bridge.

U.S. Route 80 Selma (Alabama)
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