Jamison Covered Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Long through truss bridge over Straight Creek
- Location
- Brown County, Ohio
- Status
- Destroyed by fire
- History
- Built in 1872 by F.F. Stineman. Lost to arson on October 1 1968
- Builder
- - F.F. Stineman
- Design
- Long through truss with arches
- Dimensions
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Span length: 104.0 ft.
Total length: 104.0 ft.
- Also called
- Straight Creek Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +38.83070, -83.84580 (decimal degrees)
38°49'51" N, 83°50'45" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/252969/4301837 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 84518 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- February 21, 2019: Updated by Tony Dillon: Fixed name
- February 21, 2019: New photos from James Back
Sources
- James Back
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Lost Bridges.org - Images + info
Comments
Here are the pics I was unable to upload before. If you follow the map for this bridge, this is what you will find, not a replacement bridge. The site is quite grown in even this time of year and the east abutment is in a state of collapse.
I went to visit this site today and there were the abutments right where I left them about 25 years ago. I'm not sure why this bridge is associated with the Straight Creek Bridge, but they are not in the same location, as you can see by their individual maps. This bridge was never replaced, and the pre-1999 bridge at Straight Creek was a Whipple or similar truss that was there long before the late '60s.
I have attempted to upload some photos of the abutments, but for whatever reason they are not processing.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/brown/bh84518/
I deleted the link showing the Straight Creek Bridge as a successor to this one because as Rick's photos show, this bridge was not replaced, and the predecessor to the Straight Creek Bridge was a 1934 steel truss.