Rating:
43074
{87}%
6 votes
Egypt Pike Bridge
Photos
Photo taken by Don O'Brien in April 2009
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BH Photo #144369
Description
This is one of three known remaining bowstring ponies designed by Zimri Wall and his firm the Champion Bridge Company. The design was very unique and features a trio of iron plates with tubes separating them in a Warren truss pattern... A sort of double-decker look if you will. This is the only one of the three that still appears to function as a load-bearing truss system.
Facts
- Overview
- Bowstring pony truss bridge over Mud Run on Egypt Pike
- Location
- Pickaway County, Ohio
- Status
- Open to pedestrians
- History
- Built in 1876. Replaced in 1987, but moved next to new bridge for pedestrian use.
- Builders
- - Champion Bridge Co. of Wilmington, Ohio
- Zimri Wall
- Design
- Bowstring pony truss
- Recognition
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Posted to the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.55788, -83.25949 (decimal degrees)
39°33'28" N, 83°15'34" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/305882/4381126 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- New Holland
- Inventory number
- BH 43074 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 30, 2020: New photos from Matthew Hemmer
- October 18, 2016: New photos from Janis Ford
- February 16, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Added GPS coordinates
- December 30, 2009: New photos from Bill Eichelberger
- August 6, 2009: New photo from Don O'Brien
- July 27, 2009: Added by Anthony Dillon
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Don O'Brien - dok97 [at] frontier [dot] com
- Bill Eichelberger
- Janis Ford
- Matthew Hemmer - matthemmer1994 [at] gmail [dot] com