Who designed the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, and in what year was its construction completed?”
A 1938 proposal by the Maryland General Assembly, was the first to call for a bridge at the Sandy Point-Kent Island location.[2] Although the legislation authorizing the new bridge passed, the involvement of the United States in World War II delayed the bridge’s construction. In 1947, with the war over, the assembly, under the leadership of Maryland Governor William Preston Lane, Jr., passed legislation directing the State Roads Commission to be