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Ohio Canal Bridge
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Ohio Canal Bridge
Bridge destroyed by flood
Photo taken by Douglas Butler in April 2013
License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
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BH Photo #285308
Description
The bascule span is the widest bridge ever built.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Deck girder bridge over Ohio & Erie Canal on Ohio Canal
- Location
- Massilion, Stark County, Ohio
- Status
- Destroyed by flooding
- History
- Built in 1913 ; Destroyed by flooding
- Builder
- - Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
- Design
- Deck girder bascule
- Dimensions
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Total length: 316.0 ft.
Deck width: 100.0 ft.
- Also called
- Main Street Bridge
Lincoln Wy West Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.79496, -81.52809 (decimal degrees)
40°47'42" N, 81°31'41" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/455448/4516130 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Massillon
- Inventory number
- BH 61359 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- September 5, 2021: New photo from Douglas Butler
- December 8, 2020: New photo from Douglas Butler
- June 14, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler
Canal was Ohio and Erie Canal. Miami and Erie Canal was the one in Western half of the state, Toledo to near Cincinnati.