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Falling Rock Camp Iron Bridge
Description
A composite cast- and wrought iron bridge, the Falling Rock Camp Bridge is one of three surviving Post trusses in the United States.-- Historic American Engineering Record
Timeline
Compiled by James Baughn
- ca. 1872
- Constructed over Brushy Fork in Perry Township, probably by the Cleveland Bridge & Car Works
- Aug. 3, 1926
- Licking County offered to give bridge to Village of Hebron in exchange for moving it
- April 1927
- C.B. Patterson erected bridge on new abutments at the west end of Cumberland Street over the Ohio Canal in Hebron
- June 24, 1931
- Hebron council voted to sell bridge to Licking County to be relocated to the Boy Scout Camp. Because of a dispute over right-of-way, the bridge was never used during its time in Hebron.
Facts
- Overview
- Iron pony truss bridge over Rocky Fork at Falling Rock Boy Scout Camp
- Location
- Licking County, Ohio
- Status
- Has been moved and restored in the camp.
- Future prospects
- The bridge has been moved off of the creek where it will be repaired. It will then be relocated back over the stream about 300ft downstream near the covered bridge.
- History
- Built ca. 1872; relocated 1927 and 1931
- Design
- Cast- and wrought-iron Post pony truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 66.0 ft.
Total length: 66.0 ft.
- Also called
- Doc Brown Bridge
Bridge #411 - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.17718, -82.30209 (decimal degrees)
40°10'38" N, 82°18'08" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/389140/4448235 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Hickman
- Inventory number
- BH 27864 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- July 6, 2021: New photos from David Case
- November 21, 2016: Updated by Christopher Finigan: Added category "Pin-connected"
- November 20, 2016: Updated by Janis Ford: Updated status
- December 2, 2015: Updated by Nathan Holth: Location was wrong, fixed to current location.
- March 16, 2014: HAER photos posted by Dave King
- January 10, 2012: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added alternate names
- July 23, 2009: New photos from James Baughn
- December 19, 2005: Posted photos from Gregory S. Hamilton
Sources
- Gregory S. Hamilton's Photography
- James Baughn - webmaster [at] bridgehunter [dot] com
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- HAER OH-89 - Falling Rock Camp Bridge, Spanning Rocky Fork Creek, Hickman, Licking County, OH
- Nathan Holth
- Historicbridges.org - by Nathan Holth
- Janis Ford
- David Case
Comments
Falling Rock Camp Iron Bridge
Still looks the same as Janis saw in 2013. I laughed at the attempt to replicate the missing original endposts. Whoever did it assumed (incorrectly) that the top was the same size as the bottom. In reality the original cast iron posts tapered very slightly. The result of this mistake was that a crude "fix" apparently was made by cutting the top slightly with a torch to make it fit.
Falling Rock Camp Iron Bridge
This is how the bridge looked 2/16/13. Sorry the photos are so dark, I was out of light. Bridge is now on the scout camp property, quite near the covered bridge; closer to Rocky Fork Rd. than the CB. Not visible from the road.
Falling Rock Camp Bridge
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This bridge used to span the Rock Fork off Rocky Fork Rd. at the winter entrance to the camp. It was moved back onto camp property near the covered bridge. Very nicely done.