The bridge carries U.S. Route 27 across the Ohio River, connecting Newport, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio.

Some regard this bridge, which was a replacement for the structurally deficient and functionally obsolete Cincinnati-Newport Bridge built by Samuel Bigstaff,[3] as a little too plain in its design for a major urban bridge, especially considering many cities today are opting for a more elegant design, such as a cable stayed bridge.

[4] The bridge is named for the families of James Taylor, Jr. and Richard Southgate, two important early settlers of Newport.

Richard was the father of William Wright Southgate, a pre Civil War Congressman from northern Kentucky.

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