Dakota Life Detours: Yankton’s Meridian Bridge (Full Episode)

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My grandmother Christine (Mauch) Lukas was born in 1897 in Menominee, Nebraska just south of Yankton. She spoke often of using the pontoon bridge….as well as crossing the ice in winter. Meridian bridge very well may be the reason she met and married my grandfather, Edward Lukas….himself born in Yankton in 1893. Though he lived many years in my hometown Sioux City, he had a life long love affair with his birth place and is buried at Sacred Heart Cemetery out on Douglas Street near his father Wm. Lukas.

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The double decker bridge. Known wide and far.