Rating:
No votes cast
Cambria Road Bridge
Photos
MI-43-1
Photo taken by Dietrich Floeter, May 1989, for HAER
View photos at Library of Congress
BH Photo #120990
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt pony truss bridge over West Branch St.Joseph of Maumee on Cambria Road in Camden
- Location
- Camden, Hillsdale County, Michigan
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1899; Replaced 1991
- Builder
- - New Columbus Bridge Co. of Columbus, Ohio
- Design
- Single span, steel Pratt pony truss with riveted connections.
"The Cambria Road Bridge is the only known surviving example of a bridge built by an Ohio company of this era in Michigan.
"This documentation was undertaken in July 1989 in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement agreed to by the Gratiot [sic] County Road Commission as a mitigative measure prior to replacement of the bridge."
Stanley L. Clingerman, Engineer
Hillsdale County Road Commission
Hillsdale, Michigan[Editor Notes: The slip in the name of the county is likely a result of the using cut and paste from another document.]
` - Dimensions
-
Span length: 40.8 ft.
Total length: 40.8 ft.
Deck width: 15.6 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +41.74980, -84.66975 (decimal degrees)
41°44'59" N, 84°40'11" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/693746/4624621 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Nettle Lake
- Inventory number
- BH 37162 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- J.R. Manning - thekitchenguy [at] sbcglobal [dot] net
- HAER MI-43 - Cambria Road Bridge, Spanning West branch of St. Joseph River on Cambria Road, Camden, Hillsdale County, MI
© Copyright 2002-20, James Baughn and contributors.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mi/hillsdale/cambria-road/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/mi/hillsdale/cambria-road/