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1932-1933 Bridge spanning the Canadian River in Caddo County, composed of 38 100-foot camelback pony trusses carrying a 25 foot wide concrete roadway with a thin asphalt surface.  Fabricated by the Kansas City Bridge Company.  This structure is contained within the 1931-33 At approximately 3/4 mile in length, it is the longest bridge span on Route 66 in Oklahoma.  At the time of its construction, the State Highway Commission Annual Report hailed it as "the most pretentious engineering project attempted" by the Commission.  It is officially designated the William H. Murray Bridge, in honor of Governor William "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, and as Structure #0902000X on the state highway system.  It was not opened to service until 1934 due to delays in paving the alignment west of the river.  It still carries state highway traffic on US-281.  This structure was determined individually eligible for inclusion in the NRHP in the 1989-1993 Oklahoma Historic Bridge Survey.



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(1) Maps are from the publication 'Oklahoma Route 66' by the author 'Jim Ross, Ghost Town Express, 2001'.  These maps are copyrighted and not for commercial use.



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