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The Bellaire Bridge or Interstate Bridge is a privately owned, closed cantilever truss toll bridge that spans the Ohio River between Benwood, West Virginia (near Wheeling) and Bellaire, Ohio (near Martins Ferry). [1] It provided a link for commuters between southern Ohio border towns and West Virginia steel mills from 1926 to 1991. [2]
The span in Benwood, West Virginia. The spans to the bridge were completed in 1870. The Bellaire span contains 43 arched spans measuring 33 feet 4 inches (10.16 m) wide and varying from 10 to 20 feet (3.0 to 6.1 m) in height over the roadways of downtown Bellaire.
Bellaire is a village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 3,870 at the 2020 census, having peaked in 1920. It is part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. The Bellaire Bridge (now abandoned and closed) was filmed in the 1991 motion picture The Silence of the Lambs.
Bellaire and Benwood: 1870 Bellaire Bridge (Closed, Demolition planned) Bellaire and Benwood 1926 (closed 1991) Vietnam Veterans Memorial Bridge: I-470: Brookside and Wheeling: 1985 Wheeling Suspension Bridge (crosses main channel only) WV 251: Wheeling Island (WV) and Wheeling (crosses the main channel entirely within the state of West ...
Interstate 470 (I-470) is a 10.63-mile-long (17.11 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway of I-70 that bypasses the city of Wheeling, West Virginia, United States.I-470 is one of 13 auxiliary Interstate Highways in Ohio and the only auxiliary Interstate Highway in West Virginia.
The $6.5 million, [14] one-mile (1.6 km) section of three-lane roadway was opened from the foot of the East Huntington Bridge to Irene Road and signed as SR 607. On June 3, 2003, bids were opened for Phase 1-B from Irene Road to SR 7 near Fairland East Elementary. [ 17 ]
The decision to build a bridge around Millau was taken in September 1986, says Virlogeux, who at the time was head of the large bridges division of the French administration.
Share of the Bellaire, Zanesville and Cincinnati Railway Company, issued 31. March 1890 1908 Ohio River and Western Railway Passenger Schedule [2] The Ohio River & Western Railroad was a 112-mile long (180 km) narrow gauge railway that was incorporated in 1875 and operated from 1877 or 1878 till 1931. The railroad was located in southeastern Ohio.