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Dixie Highway History - Cincinnati Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 8/23/2014
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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This cache is part of a series of caches placed as a tribute to the old Dixie Highway system. 


Driving the Dixie Highway through Cincinnati

Upon reaching downtown Cincinnati, previous Dixie Highway and U.S. 25 routes can no longer be perfectly followed because of typically changing traffic patterns and one way streets. On the official 1926 ODH map, a combination of Sycamore Street, Third Street, and Vine Street appears to form the route through downtown, crossing the Ohio River at the remarkable John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge—a proud predecessor and model for the more famous Brooklyn Bridge, which was also designed by Roebling. Today the classic bridge can still be crossed from Ohio into Kentucky, but now follow Sycamore Street, Sixth Street, and Race Street to reach the foot of the bridge along a new street named Freedom Way. At the time the suspension bridge was completed, Cincinnati was the largest city west of the Appalachian Mountains, with a population of 115,000—half again as much as St. Louis (78,000), and nearly four times that of Chicago (30,000).

Today the Roebling Bridge has several neighbors, two of which have either carried or still carry successor routes of the Dixie Highway. The first downstream bridge is the Clay Wade Bailey Bridge, which was opened in 1974 as a replacement for a previous bridge that carried automobile traffic between 1929 and 1970. The previous bridge was actually a converted railroad bridge that had been built by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in 1889, and one of the piers from that bridge is still being used for the paired contemporary bridges. By the 1940s, the converted bridge was carrying the northbound traffic of U.S. 25 and U.S. 42, and the suspension bridge was carrying the corresponding southbound traffic across the Ohio River. Maps of the 1950s and 1960s show all traffic on the federal routes crossing at the converted bridge. Then, after demolition of the converted bridge in 1970, it appears that the routes of U.S. 25 and U.S. 42 returned to the suspension for a short time, until the new bridge was opened in 1974. The second downstream bridge is the Brent Spence Bridge, which opened in 1963 to carry the route of Interstate 75—the modern equivalent of both the Dixie Highway and U.S. Route 25.

 Source:  IN SEARCH OF . . . THE DIXIE HIGHWAY IN OHIO

 

 

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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

YCP

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)