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During the 1937 flood, the suspension bridge (at the rear left of this photograph) linking
Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky, was the only river crossing between Stubenville, Ohio,
and Cairo, Illinois, that remained open—a distance of more than 800 miles. Designed by
famed bridge builder John Roebling, who later designed the Brooklyn Bridge in New York
City, the massive bridge first opened to traffic in 1867. Today it has been designated a Na-
tional Historic Landmark.
