The Peter Guice Memorial Bridge consists of dual two-lane automobile

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carrying I-26/ US 74 across the Green River, located between East Flat Rock and Saluda, in Henderson County,

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. Surpassed only by the Phil G. McDonald Bridge in

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and the

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, it is the third-highest bridge carrying an

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in the eastern

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at tall. Each bridge is long and wide, with two travel lanes and shoulders. In 1993, both bridges were rehabilitated after missing welds and poor welds were found in the structures. As of July 2018, both bridges are rated structurally deficient and functionally obsolete in the

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. A major rehabilitation project for the bridges is scheduled to begin in 2021. The bridge is dedicated to the memory of Peter Guice, who built the first toll bridge over the Green River in 1820; it replaced a hazardous

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along Howard Gap Road. An unrecorded flood washed out the toll bridge, but was replaced by his son; the second toll bridge was destroyed by flood in 1916. The current bridge is located high above where the former bridges once stood.

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