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Lucerne Road Bridge
Description
Originally located on Lucerne Road (TR 392) over a branch of the Kokosing River near the Morrow County line. Now owned by the Knox County Historical Society, the trusses were erected in Mount Vernon's Ariel-Foundation Park as decorations atop a load-bearing steel stringer structure.Facts
- Overview
- Half-hip Pratt pony truss bridge over Stream on Park road
- Location
- Mount Vernon, Knox County, Ohio
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built ca.1900 by the Mt. Vernon Bridge Co.; replaced 2004; preserved by the Knox County Historical Society and installed in Ariel-Foundation Park
- Builder
- - Mt. Vernon Bridge Co. of Mt. Vernon, Ohio
- Design
- Pinned, 4-panel, half-hip Pratt pony truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 49.9 ft.
Total length: 51.8 ft.
Deck width: 13.5 ft.
- Also called
- Ariel-Foundation Park Pratt Truss Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.38752, -82.50089 (decimal degrees)
40°23'15" N, 82°30'03" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/372608/4471850 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 4236599 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
BH 96915 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 7, 2022: New photos from Matthew Hemmer
- March 5, 2022: Updated by Dave King: Added category "Painted red"
- March 4, 2022: New photos from Paul Plassman
Sources
- Paul Plassman
- Lucerne Road Bridge (Ariel Foundation Park Pratt Truss Bridge) - HistoricBridges.org
- Knox County Bridges - Google Books - Photo of bridge in original location on page 29
- Matthew Hemmer - matthemmer1994 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Lucerne Road Bridge
This bridge made me laugh. Visit my page and read the narrative. Its what happens when you don't hire Bach Steel.
Lucerne Road Bridge
Whoops....forgot that "Mount" was abbreviated.
Should be fixed now.
Lucerne Road Bridge
Paul,
Please enter this in the future for that company:
Mt. Vernon Bridge Co.
I have made the change to two bridges and deleted the erroneous category.
Lucerne Road Bridge
You did create a duplicate builder...
Lucerne Road Bridge
I don't THINK I posted a duplicate bridge here...
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Thanks for fixing my builder goofs, Nathan....I must not have been thinking straight when I added the builder as "Mount" Vernon instead of "Mt". Instinct, I guess.
I'm ashamed to say that I didn't notice the mistake with the stub beams when I visited the bridge with my family back in '16, but then I was relatively new to the truss bridge realm at the time and didn't look as closely at the details as I probably would now. The attempt to make it look better as seen in your detail photos IS pretty hilarious!