The KCRR Bridge, as seen from Mt. Adams. circa 1880
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All three of these are from old stereoview cards, circa 1880. Today, this bridge is known as the Purple People Bridge, earlier as the L&N Bridge, although at the time these were made, it was the KCRR Bridge - the Kentucky Central Railroad. L&N bought the old Kentucky Central Railroad in 1888. The KCRR was the L&N line that ran from Newport, south, through Falmouth, Paris, and on to Danville.
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The L & N Bridge
The L&N Bridge, back when the L&N used it
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad Bridge
The L. & N. Bridge Between Newport and Cincinnati
L & N Bridge, Newport
The L & N Bridge, the Ohio Side, c. 1910
L & N Bridge Data
from the US Army, Chief of Engineers, 1934
These old stereoviews are c. 1880
The Ohio end of the L&N Bridge, c. 1871
A Cincinnati Enquirer 1900 article on Ohio River bridges is here.
| The LC&L Bridge (Louisville, Cincinnati and
Lexington) Bridge, later Kentucky Central, later L&N first opened on
March 20, 1872. It was the Ohio River's fourth span, after
Roebling's Suspension Bridge in Covington, his early bridge in
Wheeling, and a railroad only bridge in Louisville. Purvis'
Newport Kentucky: A Bicentennial History reports that this bridge
"stimulated such rapid growth that Newport's population continued
increasing at a faster pace than Cincinnati's in the 1870s. Newport
would rank as one of the country's hundred largest cities by 1880." The bridge had its piers enlarged from 1895-1897, and also replaced the trusses with bigger and better one. |
