Included among the names suggested was one that honored the pioneer priest Samuel Charles Mazzuchelli.

[2] From City Island, a new bridge was constructed over the Peosta Channel of the Mississippi River, along an alignment that connected with East 16th Street.

City Island has since been named Chaplain Schmitt Memorial Island in honor of Father Aloysius Schmitt, who was killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

The bridge crosses the Peosta Channel of the Mississippi River, as well as a backwater pond.

In the early 1990s, the approach to the bridge was rebuilt to accommodate the new four lane US 61/US 151 highway being built in Dubuque.