The Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge, often called the Africatown Bridge, is pictured, June 26, 2021, in Mobile, Alabama.
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Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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4928 x 3264 px | 41.7 x 27.6 cm | 16.4 x 10.9 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
26 June 2021Location:
Mobile, Alabama, USAMore information:
The Cochrane-Africatown USA Bridge, often called the Africatown Bridge, is pictured, June 26, 2021, in Mobile, Alabama. The cable-stayed bridge carries Highway 90/Highway 98 traffic across the Mobile River. The bridge replaced the former vertical lift Cochrane bridge and is located in the Africatown community of slave descendants from America’s last slave ship, The Clotilda. The bridge was completed in 1991 and is Alabama’s only cable-stayed bridge. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is a site on the Dora Franklin Finley African-American Heritage Trail. Bridge designers Volkert and Associates, Inc. won the Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award from the National Society of Professional Engineers and the Award of Excellence in Highway Design from the Federal Highway Administration for their design of the bridge. Africatown is famous for being the site where the last known slave ship, the Clotilda, landed. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)