The first railroad bridge across the river opened the following year. But because of engineering challenges, a bridge across the Lower Mississippi wasn’t opened until 1892 in Memphis .

As of 4 a.m. Wednesday, the “new bridge” over the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge to Port Allen was still closed in both directions. However, the “old bridge,” along Highway 190 was open.

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James B. Eads faced many obstacles when he built the first steel bridge in the world over the Mississippi River, none of which was more daunting than the sinking of the bridges' two piers and ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Portions of several major interstates and two major bridges over the Mississippi River remained closed due to icy conditions on Friday. NEW BRIDGE (HORACE WILKINSON ...