When was the crescent city connection built

The team experienced various setbacks including site vandalism resulting in artifact disturbance and inaccessibility of potentially fruitful sites due to private property ownership. They most thoroughly investigated artifacts from the blocks of Tchoupitoulas, St. Thomas Street to the west, and Tchoupitoulas Street to the east held 19th century structures of national historic significance including a Creole cottage, a brick shotgun house, and a double shotgun house.

As the 20th century progressed, commercial properties outnumbered domestic ones. Excavations behind the double shotgun house revealed cobblestone pavements, a cement lined privy, pier footing, foundation walls, post molds, and a wooden trough.

Recovered artifacts such as ceramics, buttons, liquor bottles, and tobacco pipes lead the team to conclude that lower and middle class Irish-German inhabitants replaced wealthier French occupants as the 19th century progressed.

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View Maps and Links. A collection of overview and detail photos. A major project milestone occurred on January 3, when the cantilevered spans, that were being erected from each side of the river, were connected. This photo shows the beam moments before the connection was made by workers from Bethlehem Steel, the superstructure contractor.

The landmark project was completed and opened to traffic on April 15, The bridge was officially named the "Greater New Orleans Bridge" and was officially the longest cantilever highway bridge in the world at the time.

Today it is the 5th-longest cantilever bridge in the world, at 1, feet long. The project also included over 2 miles of approach structures and complex interchanges. Due to increasing traffic demands, Modjeski and Masters was retained to evaluate various schemes for widening the bridge and approaches. Included in the study was an investigation into the operation and increase in traffic handling capacity for the bridge.

After concluding that the existing bridge could not be sufficiently widened to handle increased traffic in the area, Modjeski and Masters was tasked with designing a twin structure. The ceremonial start to construction occurred when then-Governor Dave Treen broke a bottle of champagne at the project site.

Work on the substructure units for the main span started the next year.