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Howard Street Kokosing River Bridge
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Howard Bridge
BH Photo #166683
Description
Until it's demise it was the oldest known remaining span built by the Columbia Bridge Works.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost through truss bridge over Kokosing River on Howard Street (old CR 35)
- Location
- Knox County, Ohio
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Built 1874; One of two spans remained until June 2007
- Builder
- - Columbia Bridge Works of Dayton, Ohio
- Design
- Main span: Wrought and cast iron Whipple through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.40491, -82.32215 (decimal degrees)
40°24'18" N, 82°19'20" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/387809/4473538 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Danville
- Inventory number
- BH 44686 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 31, 2010: Updated by Robert Elder: Edited Multiple Categories based on information from Anthony Dillon
- April 1, 2010: Added by Joshua Collins
After looking at the HAER pages for this bridge I found some new information. The East span was not a Columbia Bridge Works span, but was built in 1914 according to the documentation. The great 1913 flood destroyed the original CBW East span and it was replaced the following year with a Pratt through truss built by the Mt. Vernon Bridge Company. This East span was either lost in another flood or removed for a different reason. The West span was able to avoid disaster until man brought about it's demise.