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Johnny Vardeman: Longstreet Bridges name was unofficial until recently
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And all this time you thought the first bridge over the Chattahoochee River arm of Lake Lanier on U.S. 129 north of Gainesville was always named Longstreet Bridge. It has been called that ever since it was constructed when Lake Lanier was filling in the mid-1950s. And the previous bridge over the Chattahoochee near that same spot also was called Longstreet Bridge in honor of Confederate Gen. James Longstreet, who made his home in Gainesville after the Civil War, died here and is buried in Alta Vista Cemetery.