Morse designed many bridges located over rivers including the Allegheny, Monongahela, Niagara, and Kentucky.

Morse is also known on an international level as the designer of the Hawkesbury River Railway Bridge in Australia constructed in 1887.

It is rumored that Steubenville businessman Dohrman Sinclair had an agreement with the Follansbee Brothers of West Virginia that if the Market Street Bridge was erected, than the Brothers would create a steel mill on the farm lands of the West Virginia side located less than 1 mile (1.6 km) from the construction site of the bridge.

Two weeks later, the Bridge opened to vehicular traffic as it awaited for repairs to the connecting road on the West Virginia side.

[4] The first two customers at the toll booth were William M. Helms, a local insurance agent, and John J. Dillon, the manager of Altamont park.

The West Penn Traction Company called upon the services of Dr. David B. Steinman, a structural engineer and major bridge developer from New York City.

Morse in Pittsburgh, Steinman arrived in Steubenville and began climbing the towers of the bridge to get a better look at the broken cables.

The repairs which began in the same year as the failure increased the carrying capacity and weight limit of the bridge.

[3] Steinman may have fully repaired the bridge, but paid the price in his career after being kicked out of the American Institute of Consulting Engineers.

However, Steinman did further work on the bridge in the 1940s, putting new braces on the towers, new stiffening trusses, and replacing the wood-based roadway.

[5] In 1941, after three years of negotiations, the Market Street Bridge was purchased by the State of West Virginia for $1.3 million.

Work that began in 2010, awarded to Ahern & Associates in a $16,547 contract, included the installation of period lights along the outside cables of the bridge and a new paint and color scheme.

Officials actually polled the visitors of the website for the West Virginia Department of Transportation to pick the color scheme.

After a landslide vote of 14,543, dark blue paint on the towers and the cables and dust yellow on the truss were incorporated.

In attendance was Governor Earl Ray Tomblin and West Virginia Transportation Secretary Paul Mattox.

This came after the WVDOT began closely monitoring the bridge's cable suspension system and performing inspections every 3 months.