I can't find when this bridge was taken out of service, but it appears that it was reopened in 2013.
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| Photo taken by Jann Mayer in September 2019 via Bridge Hunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) |
Given that the 1857 bridge was the second bridge built at this sight, this 1940 bridge is the fifth bridge at this site.
One of the earliest bridges in Cleveland was constructed over the river at Seneca Street, now West 3rd Street. The city engineer, in 1857, officially reported that the bridge had collapsed, as it had been overloaded with cattle. A new wooden structure containing a draw operated by hand, replaced it. In 1888, an iron bridge with one pivot span of 180 feet and one fixed span of 105 feet, was built. On June 25, 1903, the city completed another new bridge on the same location, it being a Scherzer roller lift bridge, the first of its kind built by the city. It has a roadway of twenty-three feet eight inches wide and two 6-foot sidewalks. [ClevelandMemory]
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| Jeff Picka posted, cropped Foreground: New York, Chicago, & St Louis RR viaduct over South 3rd St (and eventually the Cuyahoga River) in the river valley. The original Nickel Plate Station was on Broadway somewhat south of downtown, and whatever allowed NP trains to get into Union Terminal seems to have been removed. Background: the south 3rd St bridge over the Cuyahoga River, which is back in use since this picture was taken. |
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| Bill Kloss posted Columbia's Crispin Oglebay (1) unloading at Cleveland Builders Supply as Kinsman's George D. Goble heads up the Cuyahoga River while Kinsman's Uhlmann Brothers is laid up at Sherwin Williams in this undated Chuck Drumm photo from my collection. Ross Brocksmith: I'm wondering which bulk commodity a Sherwin Williams facility would have been receiving via the lakes. Tom LeMond: Ross Brocksmith sand. Lotsa sand. Paint is mostly solid. William Lafferty: Flax brought from the lake head and Canada to produce linseed oil. For decades much of the Cleveland winter fleet held storage cargoes of flax for the linseed mill. The oil was also shipped by salties overseas from S-W beginning from at least the late '40s and possibly before the war. [This sounds more reasonable than sand. Some comments bracket the date between 1971 and July 1973.] [John Edel commented in a different forum: "LaFarge now operates on the left bank, and Shelly Materials on the right."] |
The railroad viaduct still has not been repainted.
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Chicago outlawed the use of lift bridges in their downtown area because they looked too industrial (i.e. ugly). But Chicago does have some lift bridges on the Calumet River so I would have to do a careful count to determine if Cleveland has more lift bridges than Chicago. But I'm not that curious.
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| David Scali posted Tight quarters. The Cuyahoga had steamed up the Cuyahoga River and will unload stone at the dock to the right. The American Courage was backing down the river light and stopped to wait for the Cuyahoga. 7/30/22 Bob O'Donnell Cuyahoga literally means crooked river, and the waterway quickly earned a sinister reputation because of how treacherous it was to navigate, particularly in a 500-foot long freighter. When discussion of altering it began at the turn of the 20th century, the fate of the river and those who depended on it became untenable, particularly in the neighborhood referred to as Irishtown. The early proposals involved cutting land to make Cuyahoga River bends wider, or completely re-rerouting the river. The approval of an improvement plan in 1929 called for the widening of the river at at bend near Irishtown. Calling for the use of eminent domain, the plan envisioned the demolition of the many shanty homes that had been erected on the Irishtwon Bend's hillsides. Dredging of the river at Irishtown began in 1938, but even after this initial alteration, the Plain Dealer reported that portion of the river was still a nuisance. By the mid-1950s, what was left of the Irishtown residential area was either dilapidated or abandoned, and the area was razed in 1958 to prepare for a second attempt to alter the river. Information Source: |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on David's post 3rd Street Bridge https://www.google.com/maps/@41.4857358,-81.6904403,131a,35y,51.14h,70.78t/data=!3m1!1e3 |
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| Douglas Butler posted Cleveland Public Library; West 3rd street Lift Bridge in Cleveland, OH. |
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