{"id":929,"date":"2012-12-15T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T17:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/?p=929"},"modified":"2013-04-11T12:09:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T16:09:46","slug":"york-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/york-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction of Alvin C. York Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/construction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-928\" title=\"construction\" alt=\"Alvin C. York Bridge contruction\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/construction.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"730\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/construction.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/construction-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/construction-1024x622.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Alvin C. York Bridge across the Tennessee River at Perryville built so travelers, business men, and the general public might have an easier, more convenient, and safer way of crossing the Tennessee River. This bridge was built in 1930, being opened on July 4, 1930. This bridge cost $665,000.00. It was operated as a toll bridge to defray the cost of construction.\u00a0 This bridge was named in honor of Alvin C. York, Tennessee&#8217;s famous World War hero.<\/p>\n<p>This picture is scanned from a postcard from the time. Thanks to Bart Taylor for providing this image.\u00a0 The picture is made facing Perry County with only the first span over the river channel under construction.\u00a0 The bridge was completed prior to the flooding of Kentucky Lake in 1944. The <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decaturtn\/yesterday_decatur\/york.html\">completed bridge<\/a> is also viewed from another post card scan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-926\" title=\"barge\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barge.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"857\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barge.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barge-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/barge-1024x731.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A close up of the barge shows two working men and details of the construction scaffolding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alvin C. York Bridge across the Tennessee River at Perryville built so travelers, business men, and the general public might have an easier, more convenient, and safer way of crossing the Tennessee River. This bridge was built in 1930, being opened on July 4,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-histories","category-yesterdays"],"author_meta":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/author\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/category\/yesterdays\/business\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Business and Industry<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/category\/yesterdays\/histories\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">General Histories<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/category\/yesterdays\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Yesterday&#039;s<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Business and Industry<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">General Histories<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Yesterday&#039;s<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"15","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 13 years ago","modified":"Updated 13 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on December 15, 2012","modified":"Updated on April 11, 2013"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on December 15, 2012 12:22 pm","modified":"Updated on April 11, 2013 12:09 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/decatur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}