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Chesapeake Bay Bridge
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The story of the bridge that transformed Maryland's Eastern Shore from a sleepy backwater to a major tourism destination and caused an economic boom in Baltimore in the west.
When it opened to traffic in 1952, the William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge simply called the Chesapeake Bay Bridge was the thirdlongest bridge in the world. The fourmile long span was constructed over the Chesapeake Bay in a dramatic 2.5year period of progress that became known to the workers as Operation Li...
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