Rating:
3 votes
2nd River Bridge
Description
Cast elements suggest late CBW or early Columbia Bridge Co. End post style unclear in image, H pattern suggests CBW and an 1882 or prior date. A top plate may suggest Columbia Bridge Co. thus, bridge likely would have been built between 1882 and 1885. Probably lost during the great 1913 floodFacts
- Overview
- Lost Whipple through truss at Middletown
- Location
- Middletown, Butler County, Ohio
- Status
- Lost
- History
- Columbia Bridge Works Whipple span probably built ca. 1880, other span of unknown origin possibly added later.
- Builders
- - Columbia Bridge Works of Dayton, Ohio
- D.H. & C.C. Morrison of Dayton, Ohio
- Design
- Whipple through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.51989, -84.41275 (decimal degrees)
39°31'12" N, 84°24'46" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/722400/4377668 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 70779 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
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