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James Guthrie, as the head of the Ohio Bridge Company, attempted to build such a bridge in 1829. An architect from New England, Ithiel Town, was to build a wooden structure. A cornerstone was laid for the bridge in 1836 by Twelfth Street in Louisville, but the Panic of 1837 stopped further construction. This failure, plus the unsuccessful ...
The SR 8B freeway, as it appeared on the 1964 Ohio highway map. On August 6, 1954, the portion of the North Expressway in Akron opened from Perkins Street to Cuyahoga Falls Avenue. [ 4 ] By 1962, it had been extended south to the Central Interchange and numbered Route 8B; it became mainline SR 8 in 1969 north of Market Street, and in its ...
The Bridgeport Bridge (known officially as the Wheeling and Belmont bridge as per the dedication plaque affixed to the original structure) was a steel-framed bridge but was built with a wooden deck in 1893 to replace a prior wooden covered bridge that was built on the same site circa 1836. In fact, the 1893 bridge was partially built off of the ...
The Brookport Bridge (officially the Paducah-Brookport Bridge 1929–43, and the Irvin S. Cobb Bridge since 1943) is a ten-span, steel deck (grate), narrow two-lane truss bridge that carries U.S. Route 45 (US 45) across the Ohio River in the U.S. states of Illinois and Kentucky. It connects Paducah, Kentucky, north to Brookport, Illinois. [2]
The bridge was originally designed by Hazelet + Erdal, now URS Corporation. In the early morning hours of November 1, 2024, a fire beneath the bridge in Sawyer Point Park spread to the park's playground, engulfing the bridge in flames and causing structural damage. [6] [7] [8] The southbound lanes were closed due to the need for extensive ...
At 19.3 feet, it’s billed as the shortest covered bridge in the U.S. Or the shortest in Ohio, by some accounts. However, in 2011, some folks up in Ashtabula County built the West Liberty Street ...
On February 22, 2011, a semi-truck driver was killed when his cab fell off the bridge. [4] On June 25, 2013, during a severe storm, a couple of highway signs fell down hitting two cars and injuring one person. [17] On December 14, 2017, while attempting to elude police, a man drove down the steep embankment that separates the two spans of the ...
Highway 79 Bridge; Highway B-1, Little Telico Creek Bridge; Highway B-29 Bridge; Illinois River Bridge (Pedro) Illinois River Bridge (Siloam Springs) Illinois River Bridge at Phillips Ford; Judsonia Bridge; Lafayette Street Overpass; Lake Catherine State Park-Bridge No. 2; Lake No. 1 Bridge; Lakeshore Drive Bridge; Lee Creek Bridge (Natural Dam)