OH 734 Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Paint Creek on OH 734
- Location
- Fayette County, Ohio
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1885
- Builder
- - Champion Bridge Co. of Wilmington, Ohio
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.64921, -83.50522 (decimal degrees)
39°38'57" N, 83°30'19" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/285052/4391823 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 97483 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- April 13, 2022: Updated by Brandon Cooper: Added category "Paint Creek (Ohio)"
- April 7, 2022: Updated by Brandon Cooper: Added Champion Bridge Co per Tony Dillon's comment
- April 7, 2022: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added truss type and adjusted build date in history.
- April 6, 2022: New photo from Brandon Cooper
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Newspaper Archive
- Brandon Cooper
Comments
Champion was a major player in bridge building for a long time. Zimri Wall was building covered bridges before later starting Champion. The firm is still in business today, although I don't think they build bridges anymore. They consider the Martinsville Covered Bridge (built by Wall in 1871) to be their oldest contract. Surviving examples of their metal truss bridges can be found in a number of states.
That could be. I don't know anything about Champion, as I have never seen their bridges in my region of the state. Of course, being 30 years as of this comment, my experience with through trusses and trusses in general is limited.
Newspapers have a knack for being vague in the details, and I suspect in this case the "Wilmington Bridge Company" referred to was actually the Champion Bridge Company of Wilmington, Ohio.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/fayette/bh97483/
I looked them up and they got some beautiful bridges in their history, especially their Parker spans.