Peter Guice Memorial Bridge
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As of July 2018, both bridges are rated structurally deficient and functionally obsolete in the National Bridge Inventory.[1] A major rehabilitation project for the bridges is scheduled to begin in 2021.[2]
The bridge is dedicated to the memory of Peter Guice, who built the first toll bridge over the Green River in 1820; it replaced a hazardous ford along Howard Gap Road. An unrecorded flood washed out the toll bridge, but was replaced by his son; the second toll bridge was destroyed by flood in 1916. The current bridge is located high above where the former bridges once stood.[3]
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