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Middletown Bridge (Back Channel)

Butler County, Ohio

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Description 

Location is a guess. I suspect this may be the back-channel bridge over the Great Miami at Middletown since the main "2nd River Bridge" was a larger double-span truss, yet this bridge is still said to be the Middletown crossing.

Facts 

Overview
Lost Whipple through truss bridge over Great Miami River (Back Channel) on Current OH-122
Location
Middletown, Butler County, Ohio
Status
Replaced by a new bridge
History
Built 1897; destroyed in 1913 flood; replaced 1915 by concrete viaduct
Design
11-panel Whipple through truss
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.51931, -84.40980   (decimal degrees)
39°31'10" N, 84°24'35" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/722655/4377611 (zone/easting/northing)
Inventory number
BH 94980 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

11-panel truss (67)
19th Century (8,393)
Built 1897 (285)
Built during 1890s (3,194)
Butler County, Ohio (60)
Great Flood of 1913 (49)
Great Miami River (94)
Lost (28,514)
Lost 1913 (168)
 Lost during 1910s (653)
Middletown, Ohio (10)
Ohio (4,195)
One-lane traffic (7,837)
Pin-connected (4,703)
Replaced by new bridge (19,392)
Through truss (16,803)
Truss (35,485)
Whipple truss (465)

Update Log 

  • November 5, 2021: Added by Paul Plassman

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