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Blue Rock Road Bridge

Hamilton County, Ohio
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Photos 

Overview

Photo taken May 2006 by Nathan Holth

Map 

Timeline 

Compiled by James Baughn

1884
Single-span truss bridge built at this location
Mar. 1913
Old bridge destroyed by flooding
July 1, 1913
Contract for replacement bridge superstructure awarded by Hamilton County to the Brackett Construction Co.
1914
Bridge completed
1947
Wooden deck replaced
1983
Bridge rehabilitated and new steel grate deck added
Nov. 2001
Bridge closed to traffic
Oct. 11, 2006
Main span demolished at 12:30 PM

Facts 

Overview
Lost through truss bridge over the Miami River on Blue Rock Road at New Baltimore
Location
Hamilton County, Ohio
Status
Demolished Oct. 11, 2006
History
Built 1914; rehabilitated 1970; closed Nov. 2001
Builders
- Brackett Bridge Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio
- Van Camp Brothers
Design
Pin-connected, 17-panel Parker through truss with open steel grating deck
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 458.0 ft.
Total length: 469.2 ft.
Deck width: 22.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.5 ft.
Also called
Singing Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.26339, -84.66756   (decimal degrees)
39°15'48" N, 84°40'03" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/701230/4348598 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Shandon
Inventory numbers
ODOT 3130762 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 27600 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 04/2005)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 5.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1976)
2,850

Categories 

Brackett Bridge Co. (19)
Built 1914 (567)
Built during 1910s (6,970)
Formerly NR-eligible (291)
Great Miami River (21)
HAER documented (801)
Hamilton County, Ohio (60)
Lost (11,124)
Ohio (2,248)
Owned by county (16,719)
 Parker through truss (970)
Parker truss (1,289)
Pin-connected (1,683)
Span length 250-500 feet (896)
Steel grate deck (381)
Structurally deficient (16,931)
Through truss (9,585)
Total length 250-500 feet (3,497)
Truss (24,151)
Van Camp Brothers (1)

Update Log 

  • December 30, 2009: New photos from Bill Eichelberger
  • May 25, 2006: Posted all new photos from Nathan Holth

Sources 

  • Jonathan Maxwell - themaxwellshouse [at] roadrunner [dot] com
  • HAER OH-113 - Blue Rock Road Bridge
  • Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
  • Bill Eichelberger
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Comments 

Blue Rock Road Bridge
Posted September 30, 2008, by gui

none of this shoulda ever happened, truss bridges are the cornerstone of american civil engineering, and how dare a bunch of hoodlums take this away.

Blue Rock Road Bridge
Posted May 1, 2008, by Anonymous

Yeah what he said!

Blue Rock Road Bridge
Posted April 2, 2007, by Anonymous

Yeah! People who destroyed this bridge want to wreslte with Michael Jackson!

Blue Rock Road Bridge
Posted December 23, 2006, by Anonymous

This fine old bridge was taken away! Thats a piece of what a horse leaves on the road to do this! It was almost one of a kind. Elegant it was. Someone or some group ought to suffer a consequence for this! Whoever did this is hot for The Village People(The Music Group)!

Blue Rock Road Bridge
Posted December 5, 2006, by Anonymous

Shame on the mindless county! They tore down one of the best bridges anyone ever seen. This is very devastating and I feel like saying everything in the dictionary. Is ther a MAJOR UPROAR over the demolition?

Blue Rock Road Bridge
Posted October 24, 2006, by Teri Smith (Theresa [dot] smith [at] axa-advisors [dot] com)

I used to go over this bridge as a child. We were hoping that they would save it.

Do you have any photos of the demolition of it?

Also, do you have any photos of the Bridge that used to be nearby in Ross (Venice) Ohio? that was a cool looking bridge and I cant find any pictures of it.

Thanks (Old Bridge fanatic)