Construction

ID: 1212 ~ Creator: New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Digital Collection ~ Date: 1961

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Sherman Minton under construction, 1961.
Image courtesy of New Albany-Floyd County Public Library Digital Collection

This file appears in: Sherman Minton Bridge

Sherman Minton Bridge

By Ashley Slavey, Megan Simms, Wes Cunningham, Eric Brumfield, and Katy Morrison

The Sherman Minton Bridge is a two-deck, two-span steel through-arch bridge that carries Interstate I-64 across the Ohio River west of Louisville. Completed in 1962, the bridge dramatically improved automobile transportation between New Albany and…