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Blue Rock Road Bridge

Hamilton County, Ohio

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Photos 

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Overview

Photos taken May 2006 by Nathan Holth
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Side view

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Oblique view

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View from below

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Portal

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Truss profile

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Underneath

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Ugly replacement bridge

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Plaque

Commissioners
Fred E. Wesselmann Pres.
Harry G. Innes
Samuel Weil, Jr.
Albert Reinhardt Clerk
Clinton Cowen, Co. Surveyor
Brackett Construction Co.
Builders
1914

This photo taken Sept. 1996 by Caleb Faux of the Historic American Engineering Record

Map 

Vicinity Map

Vicinity map

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Timeline 

Compiled by James Baughn

1884
Single-span truss bridge built at this location

Mar. 1913
Old bridge destroyed by flooding

July 1, 1913
Contract for replacement bridge superstructure awarded by Hamilton County to the Brackett Construction Co.

1914
Bridge completed

1947
Wooden deck replaced

1983
Bridge rehabilitated and new steel grate deck added

Nov. 2001
Bridge closed to traffic

Oct. 11, 2006
Main span demolished at 12:30 PM

Facts 

Overview
Lost through truss bridge over the Miami River on Blue Rock Road at New Baltimore
Location
Hamilton County, Ohio
Status
Demolished Oct. 11, 2006
History
Built 1914; rehabilitated 1970; closed Nov. 2001
Builders
- Brackett Bridge Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio (Superstructure)
- Van Camp Brothers (Abutments and approaches)
Design
Pin-connected, 17-panel Parker through truss with open steel grating deck
Dimensions
Length of largest span: 458.0 ft.
Total length: 469.2 ft.
Deck width: 22.0 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 17.5 ft.
Also called
Singing Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+39.26339, -84.66756   (decimal degrees)
39°15'48" N, 84°40'03" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Inventory numbers
ODOT 3130762 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure feature number)
BH 27600 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Inspection (as of 04/2005)
Deck condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 5.0 (out of 100)
Average daily traffic (as of 1976)
2,850

Categories 

Brackett Bridge Co. (4)
Built 1914 (378)
Built during 1910s (3,570)
Formerly NR-eligible (46)
Great Miami River (23)
HAER documented (297)
Hamilton County, Ohio (30)
Lost (603)
Ohio (1,658)
Owned by county (14,182)
Parker truss (419)
Pin-connected (441)
Span length 250-500 feet (578)
Steel grate deck (355)
Structurally deficient (10,809)
Through truss (5,274)
Total length 250-500 feet (2,105)
Truss (15,824)
Van Camp Brothers (1)

Update Log 

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Comments 

Blue Rock Road Bridge
Posted May 1, 2008, by Anonymous

Yeah what he said!

Blue Rock Road Bridge
Posted April 2, 2007, by Anonymous

Yeah! People who destroyed this bridge want to wreslte with Michael Jackson!

Blue Rock Road Bridge
Posted December 23, 2006, by Anonymous

This fine old bridge was taken away! Thats a piece of what a horse leaves on the road to do this! It was almost one of a kind. Elegant it was. Someone or some group ought to suffer a consequence for this! Whoever did this is hot for The Village People(The Music Group)!

Blue Rock Road Bridge
Posted December 5, 2006, by Anonymous

Shame on the mindless county! They tore down one of the best bridges anyone ever seen. This is very devastating and I feel like saying everything in the dictionary. Is ther a MAJOR UPROAR over the demolition?

Blue Rock Road Bridge
Posted October 24, 2006, by Teri Smith (Theresa [dot] smith [at] axa-advisors [dot] com)

I used to go over this bridge as a child. We were hoping that they would save it.

Do you have any photos of the demolition of it?

Also, do you have any photos of the Bridge that used to be nearby in Ross (Venice) Ohio? that was a cool looking bridge and I cant find any pictures of it.

Thanks (Old Bridge fanatic)

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