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Millwood Bridge
Photos
Current bridge reusing old truss parts - possibly from this bridge?
Photo taken by Brenda Plassman in July 2016
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BH Photo #523351
Description
It appears that a couple of v-laced beams from this bridge (or another old truss bridge) may have been used to act as braces for the pile piers of the current Millwood Road bridge.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Pratt through truss bridge over Kokosing River on Millwood Road (US 62)
- Location
- Millwood, Knox County, Ohio
- Status
- Destroyed by collision
- History
- Built 1898 by the Mount Vernon Bridge Co.; destroyed by truck in fiery collision and collapse October 17, 1947
- Builder
- - Mt. Vernon Bridge Co. of Mt. Vernon, Ohio
- Design
- Pratt through truss
- Dimensions
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Total length: 179.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.39718, -82.27830 (decimal degrees)
40°23'50" N, 82°16'42" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/391518/4472626 (zone/easting/northing)
- Inventory number
- BH 95721 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 4, 2022: New photos from Paul Plassman
- January 1, 2022: Added by Paul Plassman