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REMASTERED IN COMMENTS!!! The First Crossing — Chesapeake Bay Bridge, Maryland, 1952 The morning of July 30, 1952, broke over Maryland with a silvery haze that rolled off the Chesapeake. The water below was still, a great mirror reflecting a dawn that would soon mark a new chapter in the state’s history. Workers stood in their weathered uniforms and hardhats along the edges of the newly christened William Preston Lane Jr. Memorial Bridge — the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, a dream finally made of steel