The view from Bellerive Park, which I visited back in 2009, continues to provide one of the most enjoyable and easily accessible location to view the Mississippi River. It looks like there is a…
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MacArthur Bridge Approaches, Revisited Yet Again
The infamous road deck of the MacArthur Bridge is rapidly disappearing, and with it any chance of it reopening to automobile or pedestrian traffic.
MacArthur Bridge Approaches, Revisited
A giant freight train was rumbling by up above, and yet again I found myself staring up at the shear sublime beauty of the MacArthur Bridge. An article about its inception was just published in…
Thebes, Illinois
Thebes, Illinois, is one of those towns where one has to wonder what could have been. It was the original county seat of Alexander County before the courthouse moved to Cairo. Sitting high up on…
Cairo’s Civil Engineering Marvels
Cairo sits at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, landlocked by giant levees that keep back the two mighty bodies of water. At the southern end of the peninsula upon which the city…
The New Mississippi River Bridge and Its Place in St. Louis History
The new bridge over the Mississippi, opening as the Stan Musial Veterans’s Bridge six months shy of the 140th anniversary of the Eads Bridge, is probably the most spectacular bridge since its first counterpart in…
New Big Mound Memorial
I went to check on the progress of the new bridge, and discovered the new La Grange de Terre memorial was completed. It’s in a much better location than the old memorial in that the…
Aubin Fire Insurance Maps, 1874
C.T. Aubin also published an early fire insurance map for the downtown area of St. Louis; the city had already spread outside of the area shown, but what is show is probably close to 99%…
Great River Bridge, Burlington, Iowa
Playing Around With My New Camera
I finally have my new camera, to which many of you generously donated money, up and running with a wide angle lens. I thought I should drive around and take some pictures of long or…
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