crossing the river
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80 years ago…
August 26, 1926 – Construction work begins on a bridge spanning the Hillsborough River at Florida Avenue. The bridge was to be completed in ten weeks at a cost of $47,700 (a little more than $504,000 in today’s dollars). While the city and county split the cost of the bridge, a group of citizens, including B. L. Hamner, Milton Mabry and others, paid for the bridge themselves, expecting to be reimbursed by the City of Tampa and Hillsborough County.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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