Talk:Government Bridge

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This is one of a number of articles that refer to Government Bridge as the first span across the Mississippi. However, the opening date reported in this article (22 April 1856)is more than a year later than the opening date for the first Hennepin Avenue Bridge, which spanned the Mississippi between St. Anthony and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and opened on 23 Jan 1855. This date is contained in the Hennepin Avenue Bridge article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Louis_Hennepin_Bridge, and in several other locations. Possibly Government Bridge was the first railroad bridge to span the river?