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Bridge completed 100 years ago: No big deal

Written August 2nd, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Nobody is making a big deal of the 100th anniversary of the construction of the Albany railroad bridge across the Willamette River. That’s fitting, because when it was accomplished in 1921, the job made no splash in the papers of the time.


 
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