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local businessmen near the end of the Civil War; it would become a major producer of rail-
road rolling stock. It was absorbed into the American Car and Foundry Company in 1899.
Here the town's flooded manufacturing district can be seen, with the ACF plant in the cen-
ter.
The 1937 flood closed the Municipal Bridge spanning the Ohio River between Louisville,
Kentucky, and southern Indiana. Shown here is the flooded gatehouse at the Indiana end of
the span. Opened in 1929, the span operated as a toll bridge until 1946. Three years later,
the span was renamed the George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge in honor of the founder of
Louisville and Clarksville. Today the Clark-Floyd Counties Convention and Tourism Bur-
eau's administrative offices are located in the toll collection headquarters.
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