This relic is all that remains of Mississippi's River Bridge dedicated to B.G. Humphreys, completed on June 16, 1940, and opened to traffic on September 17, 1940. A two-lane thru-truss bridge, it had a main span of 840 feet that, at the time of completion, was the longest highway bridge crossing the Mississippi River. It replaced obsolete river ferryboats and linked the City of Greenville to all points east and west. It was celebrated as the final link in the shortest all paved-all weather route from New York to Los Angeles. Construction in 1940 cost 4.5 million dollars, its demolition in 2011 cost 20 million dollars, and a modern four-lane bridge opened in 2010 at a cost of 260 million dollars.