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Bridgeport Covered Bridge 48-35-01x / 35-07-04x
Photo
This photograph was taken on Wheeling Island looking over the back channel of the Ohio River towards Bridgeport.
Columbus Metropolitan Library; Ohio Transportation Collection
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial (CC BY-NC)
View this photo at digital-collections.columbuslibrary.org
BH Photo #279729
Description
The old wooden covered bridge on the National Road (Route 40) between Bridgeport, Ohio and Wheeling, West Virginia. The bridge was built in 1839 and remained in service until 1893 when a new steel bridge was constructed around the old wooden one at a cost of $65,974.04. This was around the same time that the horse cars were replaced with electric cars. (Photo description by Ohio Transportation Collection)Facts
- Overview
- Lost Covered through truss bridge over Back Channel of Ohio River on US 40
- Location
- Bridgeport, Ohio County, West Virginia, and Belmont County, Ohio
- Status
- Replaced by a new bridge
- History
- Built 1839; Replaced by steel bridge 1893
- Builder
- - Noah Zane
- Design
- Multiple Kingpost through truss
- Also called
- National Road Covered Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.07226, -80.73802 (decimal degrees)
40°04'20" N, 80°44'17" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/522338/4435810 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Wheeling
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 48-35-01x / 35-07-04x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 60245 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Sources
- Dave King - DKinghawkfan [at] hotmail [dot] com
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