Falls of the Ohio Bridge (1870)

Panhandle Bridge was the historic name associated with the crossing. I believe it has to do with the shape of the island it crosses over.

Not sure when the Falls of the Ohio name came into play.

Name source was the now-404ing Weebly site I cited and the UofL library’s digital collections, all of which referenced it as the Panhandle Bridge.

Falls of the Ohio is more in line with common naming, so that’s what it should be changed to.

OK, I was just worried I was matching the wrong article to the wrong bridge. I always get this bridge mixed up with another Fink on the Ohio. The name of the bridge on this website really through me off because I have never heard anyone call this bridge or its successor the Panhandle Bridge, to me that is a bridge in Pittsburgh. My research indicated that this bridge was most commonly called simply the "Ohio River Bridge" (Mr. Fink's and the Louisville Bridge Company's name) or the Fourteenth Street Bridge (common public name), or the Falls of the Ohio Bridge.

I wonder if it was an accident or a clearance problem. Actually those are both probably the same problem, I guess the question would be whether they replaced the deck truss in anticipation of a clearance-related accident or if they had an accident and needed to replace it with a through truss.

Nathan,

Photos 12 and 13 do show what appears to be a Warren deck swing truss. It was apparently very short-lived.

There is something missing from the history of this bridge. The annual report for the Louisville Bridge Company shows a deck truss swing span. However photos on this page show a through truss swing span. So it must have been replaced at an unknown date?

https://archive.org/details/annualreport00loui_0