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Philo-Duncan Falls Covered Bridge 35-60-U03x
Photos
Columbus Metropolitan Library
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
View this photo at digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org
BH Photo #279830
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Covered Through truss bridge over Muskingum River on Bridge Street
- Location
- Duncan Falls, Muskingum County, Ohio
- Status
- Destroyed by flooding
- History
- Built January 13, 1875; Rebuilt 1884 on higher level; Damaged by wind in 1908 and 2 spans replaced with iron, washed out in 1913 flood
- Builders
- - Smith Bridge Co. of Toledo, Ohio (superstructure)
- T.B. Townsend of Zanesville, Ohio (substructure)
- Design
- Five-span, covered Smith through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 160.0 ft.
Total length: 798.0 ft.
Deck width: 16.0 ft.
- Also called
- Duncan Falls-Philo Covered Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.86925, -81.90920 (decimal degrees)
39°52'09" N, 81°54'33" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/422242/4413640 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Philo
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 35-60-U03x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 60253 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 7, 2022: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added truss type, span length, and deck width
- July 4, 2022: New photos from Brandon Cooper
- December 26, 2020: New photo from Geoff Hubbs
- March 14, 2014: Added by Dave King
Related Bridges
- Philo-Duncan Falls Bridge (Successor) - Iron Trusses reused in the 1914 bridge
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Geoff Hubbs
- Newspaper Archive - Description of covered bridge's history
- Brandon Cooper
- Proceedings of the Ohio Engineering Society: (1892-1894) - Ohio Engineering Society - Google Books - Page 73
- Paul Plassman
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Muskingum County was nearly sued by the Federal Government because this bridge was too low to allow canal boat traffic to pass beneath it.
According to reports from the Corps of Engineers from the late 1800's, after the original canal was abandoned and the lock placed at the present location, boat traffic no longer had the clearance of the moveable canal bridge in the picture above and many larger boats were unable to clear the new passage underneath the main bridge.
I am fairly certain the piers from this bridge have been used in every rebuild of the bridge, including the one which still (barely) stands today.