Rating:
4 votes
Westerville Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Pratt through truss bridge over Alum Creek on Westerville Bikeway
- Location
- Franklin County, Ohio
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built 1888 by the Columbus Bridge Co. Relocated from Beach/Lucas Road over Big Darby Creekaround 2002 to Current Location
- Builder
- - Columbus Bridge Co.
- Design
- Pinned Double Intersecting Pratt
- Dimensions
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Total length: 171.0 ft.
Deck width: 14.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.11702, -82.93928 (decimal degrees)
40°07'01" N, 82°56'21" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/334741/4442547 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Northeast Columbus
- Inventory number
- BH 49892 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 28, 2017: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- November 7, 2011: New photos from James McCray
- November 5, 2011: New photos from J.P.
- October 24, 2011: Added by J.P.
Sources
- J.P. - wildcatjon2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
- Ohio Historic Presevation Office - Information about move with some pictures
- James McCray - jamesinslocomb [at] yahoo [dot] com
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
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The only time I crossed that bridge was when I was running the trail from Westerville to Easton. I reached it at about 6:15 AM or so and stopped just short of crossing. The bridge seemed to materialize out of thin air that foggy morning and I almost thought it was an old railway bridge, so I had to make sure I was still on the trail. I was too afraid to move for ten whole minutes as my flashlight couldn’t see to even the middle of the bridge. I finally got the courage to sprint across it, but I will never forget it, since that was my first experience with the bridge