Rating:
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Dresden Suspension Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Suspension bridge over Muskingum River on OH 208 in Dresden
- Location
- Dresden, Muskingum County, Ohio
- Status
- Bypassed and closed to all traffic
- History
- Built 1914 by the Bellefontaine Bridge & Steel Co.
- Builders
- - Bellefontaine Bridge & Steel Co. of Bellefontaine, Ohio [also known as Bellefontaine Bridge & Iron Co.]
- Clyde T. Morris (Consulting Engineer)
- Design
- Eyebar suspension
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 443.0 ft.
Total length: 705.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1978
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.12067, -82.00011 (decimal degrees)
40°07'14" N, 82°00'00" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/414780/4441629 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Dresden
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 6005284 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
NRHP 78002153 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 28141 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- May 26, 2020: New photos from Matthew Hemmer
- May 17, 2016: Updated by Nathan Holth: Add engineer.
- October 17, 2014: New photos from Patrick S. O'Donnell
- April 29, 2014: Updated by Luke Harden: Added city
- July 16, 2010: New Street View added by James Baughn
- October 11, 2006: Posted photos from Jack Schmidt
Sources
- Jack Schmidt - jjturtle [at] earthlink [dot] net
- Luke
- Patrick S. O'Donnell - 1 [dot] 991km [at] comcast [dot] net
- Nathan Holth
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Matthew Hemmer - matthemmer1994 [at] gmail [dot] com
Comments
Dresden Suspension Bridge as a Foot Bridge
Ohio has rail trails. The Hudson River rail bridge at Poughkeepsie NY is a walkway “park”. On this website there is a landscape area presumably a park. Why cannot Dresden incorporate their abandoned piece of history into a footbridge instead of letting it deteriorate into scrap steel. C’mon people. Ohio is full of history.
Dresden Suspension Bridge
1914
Dresden Suspension Bridge
Dresden, Ohio
We just completed a short documentary video on the history of the Dresden Bridge. Click on the link below to see a video on the bridge. http://www.scorphq.com/YouTube/pg.php?v=59Du-3QAMyA
Dresden Suspension Bridge
Pic of current bridge with old bridge from http://www.dot.state.oh.us/
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Todd,
The bridge remains owned by Ohio DOT District 5, I would encourage you to write them and express support for this bridge to be opened. The bridge is in decent condition.