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Originally Posted by shadowjack1
Is that the bridge near Columbia, MS?
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Yes, that would be the one.
Dad was a very forward thinking kind of fellow, in the late 40's-early 50's he was instrumental in the State DOT creating a smaller division now known as the Office of State Aid Road Construction; he designed and detailed all of the standard bridge plans for the County Engineers to use in a cook-book fashion, and later on revised them twice into the 70's. He is credited with having at least 6,600 bridges in the State inventory built according to his plans, not counting numerous MDOT larger type bridges.
I wanted to lobby the Legislature and have them name this bridge after him, then I found out they had already named this stretch of Highway 44 after another WWII Vet (Deceased) from the small community that survived the Bataan death march. I told this to one of his engineering associates and he said "how do you compete with that?!" and I agreed.....you can't!