Mackinac Bridge crossing the Straits of Mackinac in the State of Michigan (United States)

"We now have the largest, well-equipped hotel of its kind in the world for a short season business. Now what we need is a bridge across the Straits."

Cornelius Vanderbilt

owner of the Grand Hotel in Mackinac in 1888 before the construction of the bridge

Bridge over the Straits of Mackinac between Mackinac and Saint Ignace, Michigan (United States)

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: 

The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.' He hears me not, but o'er the yawning deep Rides heavy; his storms are unchain'd, sheath'd In ribb'd steel; I dare not lift mine eyes, For he hath rear'd his sceptre o'er the world.

To Winter 

William Blake

Mackinac Bridge between Mackinac and Saint Ignace, Michigan (United States)

In the land of Hiawatha,
Where the white man gazed with awe
At a paradise divided
By the straits of Mackinac

Men are dredging, drilling, blasting,
Battling tides around the clock,
Through the depths of icy water,
Driving caissons down to rock.
....

The Bridge at Mackinack

David S. Steinman