Platte Purchase Bridge information

The Platte Purchase Bridge was a continuous truss bridge over the Missouri River that handled northbound U.S. Route 69, connecting the Seventh Street Trafficway...

Cronkleton, Robert A. (December 8, 2016). "U.S. 69 bridge to close Friday while part of old Platte Purchase Bridge is demolished". The Kansas City Star. Retrieved...

St. Louis Paseo Bridge, Kansas City (demolished) Platte Purchase Bridge, Kansas City Poplar Street Bridge, St. Louis Rocheport Bridge, Rocheport Second...

The Platte River (/plæt/) is a major river in the State of Nebraska. It is about 310 mi (500 km) long; measured to its farthest source via its tributary...

The list of crossings of the Missouri River includes bridges over the Missouri River, which spans from the Mississippi River, upstream to its sources...

the North Platte River, was a major stopping point. Fort Laramie was a former fur trading outpost originally named Fort John that was purchased in 1848...

the North Platte near the future site of Fort Caspar in Wyoming which operated between 1848 and 1852 and the Green River ferry near Fort Bridger which operated...

located at the confluence of the Laramie and the North Platte Rivers. They joined in the upper Platte River Valley in the eastern part of the present-day...

bridged the North Platte River over a 2,600-foot-long (790 m) bridge (nicknamed ½ mile bridge). It was built across the shallow but wide North Platte...

The Louisiana Purchase Exposition, informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair, was an international exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United...

Buchanan County, Missouri. He made a fortune as a land speculator in the Platte Purchase area of Missouri, then settled in St. Joseph, Missouri and opened a...

continues west. From the bridge, trail users receive a fine view of the North Platte Hydro. Fishing is allowed north of the bridge, but not immediately downstream...

The Great Platte River Road was a major overland travel corridor approximately following the course of the Platte River in present-day Nebraska and Wyoming...

mouth of the Platte chapter in political contest over naming riverfront plaza in Omaha, Nebraska 'Lewis and Clark Landing'", Mouth of the Platte. Retrieved...

the Oregon Trail and the Mormon Trail, namely the valleys of the Platte, North Platte, and Sweetwater rivers to Wyoming. The trail has several splits and...

entering Iowa. Almost all of I-29 in Missouri lies in an area called the Platte Purchase that was not originally part of Missouri when the state entered the...

Game and Parks Commission. The fort became the eastern anchor of the Great Platte River Road and thus an important military and civilian way station for 20...

exploring areas acquired in the Louisiana Purchase. The specific purpose of the voyage was to find the sources of the Platte, Arkansas, and Red rivers. Later,...

What the River carries: Encounters with the Mississippi, Missouri, and Platte. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press. p. 74. ISBN 978-0-8262-1974-9...

(Jones & Laughlin Steel Co.), NRHP-listed Nine Bridges Bridge, private rd. over Middle Channel of the Platte R., 3.9 mi. N of Doniphan, Doniphan, Nebraska...

This is a list of Missouri covered bridges. There are four historic wooden covered bridges in Missouri, all now listed as State Historic Sites and under...