Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Shippingsport Bridge has been the name of three similarly-located bridges over the Illinois River in LaSalle Township, LaSalle County, Illinois: an 1872 swing span bridge, a 1929 vertical-lift bridge nearby, and a 2003 bridge in the same location as the 1929 bridge. The third bridge still exists and carries Illinois Route 351.The Shippingsport Bridge historically carried traffic for U.S. Route 51, a major north-south highway between Wisconsin and New Orleans. A bypass was built around Peru and La Salle in 1958. The bypass took the designation of US 51, leaving the Shippingsport Bridge being Business 51. Interstate 39 was extended south to the Peru and LaSalle area in 1987. I-39 featured the mile and a half long Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge just east of Shippingsport. I-39 ended when it merged into the US 51 bypass south of town. At that time, the old US 51 bypass was turned back to the state of Illinois and was given the designation IL 251. Business 51, which used the Shippingsport Bridge, was given the designation IL 351.The bridge is named for American Civil War hero Harvey J. Shippingsport as well as the failed settlement of Shippingsport, Illinois, located just west of present day Oglesby. After settling on the southern bank of the Illinois River in this area, he made his fortune supplying bait to the commercial fisherman who used to fish the Illinois River."@en }
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- Shippingsport_Bridge abstract "Shippingsport Bridge has been the name of three similarly-located bridges over the Illinois River in LaSalle Township, LaSalle County, Illinois: an 1872 swing span bridge, a 1929 vertical-lift bridge nearby, and a 2003 bridge in the same location as the 1929 bridge. The third bridge still exists and carries Illinois Route 351.The Shippingsport Bridge historically carried traffic for U.S. Route 51, a major north-south highway between Wisconsin and New Orleans. A bypass was built around Peru and La Salle in 1958. The bypass took the designation of US 51, leaving the Shippingsport Bridge being Business 51. Interstate 39 was extended south to the Peru and LaSalle area in 1987. I-39 featured the mile and a half long Abraham Lincoln Memorial Bridge just east of Shippingsport. I-39 ended when it merged into the US 51 bypass south of town. At that time, the old US 51 bypass was turned back to the state of Illinois and was given the designation IL 251. Business 51, which used the Shippingsport Bridge, was given the designation IL 351.The bridge is named for American Civil War hero Harvey J. Shippingsport as well as the failed settlement of Shippingsport, Illinois, located just west of present day Oglesby. After settling on the southern bank of the Illinois River in this area, he made his fortune supplying bait to the commercial fisherman who used to fish the Illinois River.".