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Red River Bridge

Marshall County
Location: in Colbert City Park, Colbert, Oklahoma
Topics: Early Statehood, 1907–1941; Folklife; Government; Social/Cultural; Transportation

The Red River bridge, constructed in 1931, was the site where Oklahoma Governor William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray defied a federal court injunction and stood with National Guard troops to make the toll bridge a free bridge. It became the first free bridge across the Red River. The structure was replaced with a new bridge in 1996.


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