Julia Butler Hansen Bridge

Julia Butler Hansen Bridge

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carries= 2 lanes of Washington State Route 409
crosses= Columbia River
locale= Cathlamet, Washington
maint= Washington State Department of Transportation
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design= cantilever through-truss concrete segmental bridge
mainspan= 400 ft
length= 2,433
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below= 60 ft at high tide
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open= August 1939
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The Julia Butler Hansen Bridge crosses a side channel of the Columbia River from Cathlamet, Washington to Puget Island, Washington. A ferry crosses to Oregon. The bridge was named after former United States Congresswoman Julia Butler Hansen who represented Washington from 1960 to 1974.

References

* [http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&File_Id=8025 Wahkiakum County's Julia Butler Hansen Bridge is completed in August 1939. HistoryLink.org Essay 8025]
*Craig Holstine and Richard Hobbs, "Spanning Washington: Historic Highway Bridges of the Evergreen State" (Pullman, Washington: WSU Press, 2005), 100-101. ISBN 0874222818
* [http://en.structurae.de/structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0031999 Structurae [en] : Julia Butler Hansen Bridge (1939)]

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structure = Crossings
place = Columbia River
bridge = Julia Butler Hansen Bridge|bridge signs =
upstream = Lewis and Clark Bridge|upstream signs =
downstream = Astoria-Megler Bridge|downstream signs =


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