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The Eau Gallie Causeway connects Eau Gallie, Florida (which merged with Melbourne in 1969), with SR A1A near Indian Harbour Beach, across the Indian River Lagoon. Located entirely within the Melbourne city limits, the causeway consists of a main bridge crossing over the Intracoastal Waterway and a relief bridge. Eau Gallie, an independent city in Brevard County, Florida from the mid-1800s to 1969 when citizens voted to merge with neighboring Melbourne, Florida. ...
Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States. ...
Current route Most of SR A1A runs along the Atlantic Ocean, with sections from Key West at the southern tip of Florida, all the way to Fernandina Beach, just south of Georgia. ...
Indian Harbour Beach is a city located in Brevard County, Florida. ...
The Indian River Lagoon is a series of lagoons and inlets making up a portion of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in the U.S. state of Florida. ...
Tug and barge on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway The Intracoastal Waterway is a 4,800 km (3,000 mile) long recreational and commercial waterway along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. ...
In 1925, construction began on the first wooden bridge across the Indian River Lagoon. On February 22, 1926, George Washington's Birthday, the bridge opened to traffic. The bridge connected to a sand trail that led to Canova Beach. At this time, there was no railing on the bridge for a year after its construction. There are no records that anyone fell off the bridge during this time. In 1944 a 200 foot section of the bridge burned. The Indian River Lagoon is a series of lagoons and inlets making up a portion of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in the U.S. state of Florida. ...
On February 22, 1955, George Washington's Birthday, a new multi-million dollar concrete bridge was dedicated to Dr. William Jackson Creel. The second Eau Gallie Causeway featured a swing span drawbridge. A swing bridge is a bridge that has as its primary structural support a vertical locating pin and support ring at or near to its center, about which it can then pivot horizontally as shown in the animated illustration below. ...
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Bascule bridge. ...
The third bridge, a high-rise causeway, was completed in 1988. In modern usage, a causeway is a road elevated by a bank, usually across a broad body of water or wetland. ...
Just north of the bridge, the Indian River Lagoon splits to form the Banana River Lagoon east of the southern tip of Merritt Island, Florida. Its southern tip has been known locally as Dragon's Point since 1971 when a green dragon was built there by an upset landowner who was not permitted to join the marina across the Banana River Lagoon in Indian Harbour Beach. In 2005 the Dragon collapsed into the water and was destroyed due to the neglect of the current landowner and the inability for the landowner and the Brevard County Commissioners to agree on a rehabilitation effort. Indian River is the name, or part of the name, of several geographical features and locations in the United States of America and Canada: Rivers The Indian River (Florida) is part of the intracoastal waterway on the Atlantic coast of central Florida. ...
The Banana River is actually a lagoon that lies between Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida in the USA. It is part of the Indian River Lagoon system, and flows to the south into the Indian River; it is the only part of the lagoon system not...
Merritt Island is a census designated place in Brevard County, on the Atlantic coast of the U.S. state of Florida. ...
The Banana River is actually a lagoon that lies between Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida in the USA. It is part of the Indian River Lagoon system, and flows to the south into the Indian River; it is the only part of the lagoon system not...
Just up the Banana River Lagoon is Mathers Bridge, a swing span drawbridge built by John R. Mathers in 1927 to provide a route to South Merritt Island, Florida. The Banana River is actually a lagoon that lies between Cape Canaveral and Merritt Island in Brevard County, Florida in the USA. It is part of the Indian River Lagoon system, and flows to the south into the Indian River; it is the only part of the lagoon system not...
Merritt Island is a census designated place in Brevard County, on the Atlantic coast of the U.S. state of Florida. ...
From 1945 until 1971, Florida State Road 3 extended from Merritt Island to Melbourne over both Mathers Bridge and the Eau Gallie Causeway; after the opening of the Pineda Causeway, SR 3 was removed from the Eau Gallie Causeway, and Florida State Road 518 has been crossing the Intracoastal Waterway over it (and connecting with Interstate 95) since then. Currently there still is a road sign indicating a junction with Florida State Road 3 when travelling east, immediately before the intersection with South Patrick Drive. Florida State Road 3, also known as North Courtenay Parkway, is a north-south road serving as the southern access for the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida. ...
Florida State Road 404, the Pineda Causeway, is a short east-west limited access highway connecting Wickham Road (Brevard County Road 509) near Palm Shores to SR A1A between Patrick Air Force Base and South Patrick Shores, Florida, USA. It was opened as a toll road in 1971; the tolls...
Florida State Road 518, also called Eau Gallie Boulevard, is a short but major east-west highway with a western terminus at Interstate 95 on the Florida mainland, crossing the Indian River via the Eau Gallie Causeway (and intersecting the southern end of SR 513), and having its eastern terminus...
Map Interstate 95 (abbreviated I-95) is an Interstate Highway that runs 1,927 miles (3,101 kilometers) north-south along the east coast of the United States. ...
Florida State Road 3, also known as North Courtenay Parkway, is a north-south road serving as the southern access for the Kennedy Space Center near Cape Canaveral, Florida. ...
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Coordinates: 28.132715° N -80.617960° E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ...
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