Interstate 55 in Tennessee
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Interstate 55 is part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from LaPlace, Louisiana, to Chicago, Illinois. In the state of Tennessee, the Interstate is located entirely within the state's second-
I-55 northbound in the Whitehaven neighborhood in Memphis
I-55 near the Mississippi state line in the early 1960s, looking north
I-55 northbound approaching the original configuration of the Crump interchange
The Memphis & Arkansas Bridge, completed in 1949, carries I-55 across the Mississippi River between Tennessee and Arkansas
Memphis & Arkansas Bridge
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The Memphis & Arkansas Bridge, also known as the Memphis–Arkansas Bridge or inaccurately as the Memphis–Arkansas Memorial Bridge, is a cantilevered through truss bridge carrying Interstate 55 across t
Original 1949 Memphis nameplate of Memphis & Arkansas Bridge, showing its correct name as well as its planning commission headed by E. H. Crump.
Photo of dedicatory poem opposite nameplate, officially attributed to Walter Chandler.
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