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LN - Henderson Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Warren through truss bridge over Ohio River on Louisville & Nashville Railroad
- Location
- Henderson, Henderson County, Kentucky
- Status
- Replaced by new bridge
- History
- Built 1885; replaced by the current railroad bridge just to the south in 1932
- Builders
- - Albert Fink of Lauterbach, Hesse, Germany
- Louisville Bridge & Iron Co. of Louisville, Kentucky
- Railroad
- - Louisville & Nashville Railroad (LN)
- Design
- Warren through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 521.9 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +37.84591, -87.59526 (decimal degrees)
37°50'45" N, 87°35'43" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/447628/4188885 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Henderson
- Inventory number
- BH 49751 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 19, 2021: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- January 25, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- October 1, 2011: New photo from James Baughn
Sources
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- L&N Railroad bridge over the Ohio River at Henderson, Ky.
- Melissa Brand-Welch - melissabrandwelch [at] msn [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
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I recently saw a claim by the Henderson Tourism Commission that G.W. Ferris, inventor of the Ferris Wheel, was the architect of the L&N bridge. I had previously read contradictory information, and was able to find a number of historical records confirming that the chief architect was actually F.W. Vaughan, although Ferris was his assistant.
Below are some of the excerpts I found that corroborate this.
Sources:
Henderson. Suzanne Summers Thurman. Published 2008. The Gleaner. https://books.google.com/books?id=ylhYOiblGlkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA....
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963. Kincaid A Herr. University Press of Kentucky.
https://books.google.com/books?id=jnaPZDIda_oC&pg=PA76&sourc...
Great Achievements - Notable Structural Engineers. Structure Magazine. https://www.structuremag.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/D-Gr...