Paducah Pontoon Bridge

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This file appears in: Fort Anderson
Paducah Pontoon Bridge

Fort Anderson is barely visible in the background of this newspaper image of the great pontoon bridge constructed from the Illinois shore to Paducah. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Fort Anderson

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #828 in Paducah notes the location of Fort Anderson, a Union earthen fortification named for native Kentuckian Robert Anderson, the "Hero of Fort Sumter." When Confederate forces invaded western Kentucky in early…