Crawford Street Bridge

Providence, RI  2014

I could not find a Crawford St on current maps of the city of Providence, so I was wondering why this bridge bore the street's name.  In yet another example of the power of Google and the internet,  a quick search revealed that this bridge was originally built in 1873 and rebuilt in 1930.  At one time this bridge was much wider, being listed in the Guinness Book of world records in 1988 as the widest bridge in the world at 1150 feet.  Sometime later the city decided to narrow the bridge to expose more of the Providence River make more pedestrian-friendly cityscape.