SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Visit Ohio’s Historic Bridges Historic and unique bridges have a way of sticking in our collective memories. Many of us remember the bridge we crossed walking to school, a landmark on the way to visit relatives, the gateway out of town or a welcoming indication that you are back in familiar territory. The Ohio Department of Transportation, in collaboration with the Ohio Historic Bridge Association, Ohio History Connection’s State Historic Preservation Office, TourismOhio and historicbridges.org, has assembled a list of stunning bridges across the state that are well worth a journey. Ohio has over 500 National Register-listed and historic bridges, including over 150 wooden covered bridges. The following map features iron, steel and concrete struc- tures, and even a stone bridge built when canals were still helping to grow Ohio’s economy. Some were built for transporting grain to market. Other bridges were specifically designed to blend into the scenic landscape of a state or municipal park. Many of these featured bridges are Ohio Historic Bridge Award recipients. The annual award is given to bridge owners and engineers that rehabilitate, preserve or reuse historic structures. The awards are sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration, ODOT and Ohio History Connection’s State Historic Preservation Office. Anthony Wayne Bridge - Toledo, OH Ohio Department of Transportation SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION 2 17 18 SOUTHEAST REGION in eastern Ohio, Columbiana County has Metropark’s Huntington Reservation on the community. A project that will rehabilitate several rehabilitated 1880’s through truss shore of Lake Erie along US 6/Park Drive. and preserve this bridge, and the unique 1. Blaine Hill Viaduct bridges that are open to traffic. bird mural underneath it, is underway. (Arches of Memory Bridge) 9. Main Avenue Bridge (40.06671,-80.82031) NORTHEAST REGION (41.498725,-81.705038) 14. Suspension Bridge The 1932 open spandrel arch bridge is one Cleveland’s Main Avenue Bridge, was (40.12058,-81.99918) of Ohio’s Signature Bridges designed by D. 5. Ashtabula County-Conneaut constructed in 1939 by the WPA, and Located in the Village of Dresden, north of H. Overman and the Ohio Department of (41.93768,-80.56347) designed by Wilbur Watson and Associ- Zanesville, the 1914 Suspension Bridge was Highways Bridge Bureau staff, who were The Mill Road Concrete Rainbow Arch ates of Cleveland. The 40-span bridge constructed by the Bellefontaine Bridge nationally recognized for their innovative is an excellent representation of a style features 10 cantilevered deck trusses. The Company. The bridge is located adjacent to and aesthetic bridges. The adjacent 1826 of concrete arch made popular in Ohio in bridge spans the Cuyahoga River and the and viewable from Dresden River Park and stone arch “S” bridge carried the original the early 20th century. Crossing Conneaut Cleveland Flats. the Muskingum Recreational Trail, on East alignment of the National Road and provides Creek south of Conneaut, it was built Muskingum Avenue. The bridge is one of excellent views of the viaduct. Both struc- around 1925 and was designed for two 10. The West Main Street Bridge two eye-bar chain suspension bridges in the tures are located on the Historic National lanes of traffic. (41.153779,-81.359477) state. The other one is located in Mill Creek Road, an Ohio Scenic Byway, and federally Constructed circa 1876, is a 3-span, stone Park in Youngstown. The bridge was listed designated as an All American Road. 6. The Center Road Bridge arch, located in the City of Kent within the in the National Register of Historic Places in (41.89440,-80.57440) Kent Industrial Historic District. The bridge 1976. It was bypassed in 2000 when a new 2. Great Stone Viaduct in Bellaire Located several miles south of the Mill spans the Cuyahoga River, Riversedge State Route 208 bridge was built over the (40.012767,-80.742500) Road Bridge. It was built in 1925 and Park, and the Ohio & Erie Canal. Muskingum River. Another notable bridge A noteworthy massive structure in Belmont considered one of the longer examples of in this area is the Y-Bridge on Main St. in County is the Great Stone Viaduct in down- the concrete rainbow arch. The bridge is 11. Lanterman Falls Bridge Zanesville. town Bellaire. The 1870 railroad structure located in a scenic setting on the West (41.066886,-80.682750) features 43 arches running from the river into Branch of Conneaut Creek. The concrete Located along SR 62 in Youngstown, Ohio. 15. Dublin Bridge the city. The bridge was used in a train scene rainbow arch design was first used in This bridge spans Mill Creek in the Mill (40.09948,-83.11103) during the filming of “Unstoppable” starring Hamilton County on Benson Street in Creek Park Historic District, the first park Three and a half miles south of the Colum- Denzel Washington. Plans are underway to 1909. In 1912, James B. Marsh of Iowa district in the state of Ohio, and was cre- bus Zoo and O’Shaughnessy Reservoir, create a park and elevated walkway where it patented the design. The Ohio Department ated two years before the founding of the carrying US Route 33 over the Scioto crosses over Guernsey Street. It is a featured of Highways established a standard design Ohio state park system. The open spandrel River, historically known as the “Dublin stop along the Ohio River Scenic Byway and for rainbow arches in 1923. However, in concrete arch was constructed in 1920. Bridge,” is a 552-foot concrete 3-rib deck the Drovers Trail Scenic Byway. Hamilton County near Cincinnati, there are arch. It was built in 1935 and designed by two very early examples of rainbow arches 12. The Silver Bridge the Ohio Department of Highways’ Bridge 3. Zoarville which date to 1909 and 1911 on Wiley (41.07327,-80.68898) Engineer, D. H. Overman. The bridge was (40.57732,-81.39141) Road and Benson Street. Located on Valley Drive over Mill Creek highlighted in Civil Engineering Magazine, One of the only three known surviving within the Mill Creek Park Historic District, August 1936, and features locally quarried examples of its type in the U.S., the 1868 7. The Chippewa Creek Bridge Youngstown. This historic district was the limestone and a mortar mix intended to iron Fink-style Truss was originally located (41.320256,-81.621752) first park district in the state of Ohio and harmonize with its setting. in Dover. It was listed in the National A single-span, concrete arch bridge was created two years before the founding Register of Historic Places in 1996. Thank- located along SR 82 in Cuyahoga County. of the Ohio state park system. The rare and 16. John Bright Iron Bridge fully for us, one of the most historically Brecksville’s town center is to the west highly decorative metal eye-bar suspen- (39.73646,-82.58468 ) significant bridges in the nation has been and Cleveland Metropark’s Brecksville sion bridge was built by the Youngstown Located on the landscaped Ohio University restored and preserved on the Camp Reservation is adjacent to the bridge to Bridge Company in 1895. Campus in Lancaster, the John Bright Iron Tuscazoar Trail. There are only about 52 the south. The bridge features rusticated, Bridge is is a highly unusual truss bridge surviving early thru trusses in the state sandstone veneer walls and crenellated CENTRAL REGION designed as a suspension bridge. It was that are made of iron. parapets. This bridge was designed and built by the Hocking Valley Bridge Works constructed by the Ohio Department of 13. Glen Echo Bridge of Lancaster around 1884. 4. Zoar Highways in 1932. (40.018975,-83.001957) (40.60872,-81.42820) The Glen Echo Bridge is part of the Glen 17. The Roderick Bridge A few miles west of the bridge at Camp 8. The Porter Creek Bridge Echo Historic District, which is a district (40.068139,-82.440528) Tuscazoar, on the Zoar Valley Trail, is a (41.489460,-81.932076) characterized by an early 20th century Previously located in Coshocton County, it rare continuous Pratt metal truss bridge Constructed in 1937, is a 5-span concrete planned residential subdivision that was constructed in 1872 by Coshocton Iron that was built in 1883 by the Wrought arch bridge with stone veneer. D. H. Over- achieved such status by its community Works. It follows the first iron bowstring Iron Bridge Company of Canton. It has man of the Ohio State Highway Depart- planning and high style architecture. This design patented in 1841 by the famed also been preserved as a pedestrian and ment was the principle design engineer. bridge was constructed to match the Squire Whipple. It was moved to theT.J. bike crossing. Also worth checking out The bridge is located within the Cleveland aesthetic architecture of its surrounding SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION 23 25 32 Evans Trail running through the OSU New- 23. Auglaize County-New Bremen Big Four Bridge was the inspiration for the Jersey, to cross the Ohio River but was ark Campus in 1998. (40.43552,-84.38081) Ohio Historic Bridge logo. not completed until 1866. This suspension Crossing the Miami and Erie Canal as a bridge, often referred to as the prototype 18. The Gallman Road Bridge converted pedestrian bridge, this is an 28. Anthony Wayne for the Brooklyn Bridge, is important for (40.05029,-82.47398) early example of the work of David H. Suspension Bridge-Toledo its aesthetic qualities and age, earning it Located southeast of the Ohio State Morrison of the Columbia Bridge Works of (41.64107,-83.53368) a spot on the National Register of Historic Newark Campus, on the T.