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Seymour Covered Bridge
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Wernwag Truss Bridge over Paint Creek on US 50
- Location
- Ross County, Ohio
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge after abutment failure in 1933.
- History
- Built 1840, Replaced 1933-4
- Builders
- - J.W. Slee (Builder)
- Louis Wernwag of Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany (Designer)
- Design
- Massive single-span Wernwag truss with arches
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 195.0 ft.
Total length: 211.0 ft.
- Also called
- US50 Paint Creek Bridge
Paint Creek Covered Bridge - Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.23987, -83.22877 (decimal degrees)
39°14'24" N, 83°13'44" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/307650/4345762 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Morgantown
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 35-71-07x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 59157 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- March 25, 2014: Updated by Tony Dillon: Added builder and truss type
- January 10, 2014: New photos from Luke Harden
- January 7, 2014: Added by Luke Harden
Sources
- Bainbridge, Ohio Pictures and Information - Imagery
- Luke
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
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