Market Street Bridge (Chattanooga)

Market Street Bridge
Official name	Chief John Ross Bridge
Carries	4 lanes of North Market St.
Crosses	Tennessee River
Locale	Chattanooga, Tennessee
Design	Double-leaf Bascule bridge
Total length	1894.5 ft (577 m)
Width	36 ft (11 m)
Longest span	358.8 ft (109 m)
Opened	1917

Market Street Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Coordinates:	35°3′31″N 85°18′33″W / 35.05861°N 85.30917°W / 35.05861; -85.30917Coordinates: 35°3′31″N 85°18′33″W / 35.05861°N 85.30917°W / 35.05861; -85.30917
NRHP Reference#:	10001047
Added to NRHP:	2010-12-20

The Market Street Bridge, officially referred to as the John Ross Bridge, is a bascule bridge that spans the Tennessee River between downtown Chattanooga and the Northshore District. It carries North Market Street (formerly designated as U.S. Highway 127), and was named in honor of Cherokee Chief John Ross. The bridge was completed in 1917 at a cost of $1 million. In the mid 1970s, the southern terminus of US-127 was moved several miles north to the intersection of Dayton Boulevard and Signal Mountain Boulevard in the nearby suburb of Red Bank.

The bridge closed in 2005 for a renovation, but reopened on August 4, 2007, ahead of its originally scheduled September completion date.^[1]

References

1. ^ "Market Street Bridge Project: What's Happening". Mountain States Contractors. http://www.marketstbridge.com/happening.html. Retrieved 2007-05-28. 

External links

• Old photograph from the Library of Congress
• Bridges of the Midwest
• Market Street Bridge at Structurae
• Restoration Project