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Main Street Bridge
Description
Cost $109,000. Said to be the longest single-span truss bridge in the nation at the time, a claim that was almost certainly exaggerated.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Baltimore through truss bridge over Great Miami River on Main Street
- Location
- Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio
- Status
- Destroyed by severe weather
- History
- Built 1895; Lost to flooding in 1913.
- Builder
- - Toledo Bridge Co. of Toledo, Ohio [also known as Smith Bridge Co.]
- Design
- Baltimore through truss
- Also called
- High Street Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.40132, -84.56460 (decimal degrees)
39°24'05" N, 84°33'53" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 16/709701/4364142 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hamilton
- Inventory number
- BH 59396 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- November 6, 2021: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added some description
- August 16, 2020: New photo from Tony Dillon
- June 24, 2019: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- June 23, 2019: New photo from Melissa Brand-Welch
- May 23, 2019: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- December 1, 2018: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- March 24, 2017: New photo from Dana and Kay Klein
- December 18, 2016: New photo from Dave King
- April 2, 2016: New photo from Art Suckewer
- March 14, 2014: Photo imported by Dave King
- March 13, 2014: Photo imported by Dave King
- January 26, 2014: Added by Luke Harden