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Broad Street Bridge (1st) 35-25-17x

Franklin County, Ohio

Photos 

Source Photo #1: History of Franklin County v.1; Photo #2: The Story of Columbus OH 977.13 C72st, page 7; Photo #3: Souvenir : eighth biennial convention of the Grand International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, Columbus, Ohio. OH 917.7157 G751s; Photo #4: Centennial History of Columbus and Franklin County, OH 977.13 C72t, volume 1, page 47. Lazarus Historical Photo Collection, v. 03, p 41. , Lazarus Historic Photo Collection, Box 1, p. 16

Columbus Metropolitan Library

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)

View this photo at digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org

BH Photo #279740

Map 

Facts 

Overview
Lost Covered through truss bridge over Scioto River on Broad Street
Location
Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built ca. 1832; Replaced 1870
Builder
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of Washington, D.C.
Design
Town lattice through truss
Also called
Broad Street Covered Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.96170, -83.00523   (decimal degrees)
39°57'42" N, 83°00'19" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/328732/4425431 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Southwest Columbus
Inventory numbers
WGCB 35-25-17x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 60247 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (7,566)
Built 1832 (47)
Built during 1830s (198)
Columbus, Ohio (71)
Covered (1,648)
Franklin County, Ohio (104)
Lattice through truss (554)
Lattice truss (586)
Lost (24,733)
 Lost 1870 (6)
Lost during 1870s (61)
Ohio (3,399)
Replaced by new bridge (16,577)
Scioto River (41)
Through truss (15,062)
Town lattice truss (260)
Truss (32,784)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (38)

Update Log 

  • March 14, 2014: Added by Dave King

Sources 

  • Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com

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