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the United States' recent victory in World War I against the
Central Powers. With the Victory Bridge's construction, the municipal government of Manatee attempted to buy Davis Bridge and make it public but the deal however never went through. The rest of the Davis Bridge ended up being dismantled with the exception of its swing span which was sold to county government and reused for the first bridge to Snead Island in 1920.
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Victory Bridge was heavily damaged by a hurricane in 1926 and was subsequently deemed unsafe. The following year, the original Green Bridge was built to replace the Victory Bridge. During construction, a ferry operated until the Green Bridge was complete in 1927. The original Green Bridge was a
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was opened in August 1919 running from current 9th Street West in
Bradenton to 8th Avenue in Palmetto (the site of the current Green Bridge). Funding for the bridge came from bond issues by both Bradenton and Palmetto. The Victory Bridge was also a wooden structure and had two lanes. It was named for
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The original Green Bridge was replaced by the current Green Bridge in 1986. The current bridge is four lanes and is a 40-foot-tall fixed span bridge. It was built on the site of the previous
Victory Bridge. Part of the original Green Bridge on the north side of the river has been converted into a
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637:Main Street
586:John Gorrie
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39:Coordinates
1260:Categories
1238:Downstream
1124:Fort Gates
1082:Seven Mile
1062:Card Sound
1036:Stan Gober
996:Fort Hamer
976:Cape Coral
925:Royal Park
880:Blue Heron
829:Pete Damon
794:Lake Jesup
784:Eau Gallie
489:(Postcard)
440:2021-05-22
410:2021-05-27
375:2021-05-27
316:References
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186:Statistics
1041:Tom Adams
949:Southwest
930:Snow-Reed
915:MacArthur
864:Whitehair
844:Roosevelt
804:Melbourne
774:Bert Dosh
687:L.E. Buie
569:Panhandle
1204:Upstream
1072:Long Key
1021:Midpoint
940:Venetian
779:Broadway
667:Memorial
606:Trammell
434:Archived
404:Archived
369:Archived
223:Palmetto
221:between
199:Location
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1026:Sanibel
859:Wabasso
789:Granada
769:Bennett
703:Bayside
662:Mathews
642:Buckman
611:Victory
591:Mid-Bay
562:Florida
459:US Ends
308:route.
233:History
165:History
100:Crosses
77:Carries
1211:Bridge
991:Edison
986:Desoto
981:Cortez
910:Lehman
834:Pineda
824:Osteen
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170:Opened
145:Design
110:Locale
1138:Lists
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873:South
764:Astor
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620:North
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