Light-House Board Notice on Detroit River Bridge
A federal notice orders the Detroit River bridge company to keep lights burning through the night to mark the draw span for river traffic — a small window into 19th-century navigation safety rules.
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The Cairo Bulletin · July 20, 1873 · Page 1
1 min readWASHINGTON, July 19.
The light-house board gives notice that the Detroit river bridge company has been required to maintain, throughout each night hereafter, during the season of navigation, a range of lights to show the draw in the bridge over the channel between Trenton and Grosse Isle, Michigan, known as the American channel.
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