George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge

The George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge as seen from Jeffersonville, with Louisville, Kentucky in the background

[edit] Prophecy

I was playing marbles with my little brother. And I thought I'd got sick, some real funny feeling came on me. And I went and set down by the side of a tree. And I looked down at the river, and there went a bridge, a big, great big bridge going across the river. And I counted sixteen men that fell off of that bridge and drowned. And I went and told mother. And I told her I seen it. And they thought I was crazy or something. They thought I was just at a little nervous hysterical child.

And twenty-two years from that time, on the same ground went the municipal bridge across, and sixteen men lost their lives on it.

(EXPERIENCES, PHOENIX, AZ, 48-0302)

[edit] Fulfillment

The George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge is a four-lane cantilever bridge crossing the Ohio River between Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana, carrying US 31. It was designed by Paul Philippe Cret of Philadelphia, and construction began in June 1928 by the American Bridge Company of Pittsburgh at a cost of $4.7 million. It opened to the public in October 31, 1929, then called the Louisville Municipal Bridge, and operated as a toll bridge. The bonds that financed the construction were finally paid off in 1946, and the tolls were removed. In 1949, the bridge was renamed in honor of George Rogers Clark, recognized as the founder of Louisville. The bridge was rehabilitated in 1958, and is still in use today.