Erie Canal Aqueduct over Butternut Creek at De Witt, NY

(Satellite)

Erie Canal Overview

Joel Torres posted three photos with the comment:

"The Butternut Creek Aqueduct "

DeWitt, N.Y.

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Street View, Sep 2025

The combination of this topo map, the Empire State Trail and the Google Map label made it easy to find this aqueduct.

1895/95 Syracuse Quad @ 62,500

Erie Canal Aqueduct over Oriskany Creek in Oriskany, NY

(Satellite, the piers for the trough are still visible.)

Erie Canal Overview

Street View, Nov 2022

Yvonne Wall posted

1947 Washington Ave. Bridge over Wheeling Creek in Wheeling, WV, Collapsed During Demolition on Jan 7, 2026

(no Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Wheeling, WV Fire Department posted three photos with the comment: "Around 1:45 p.m. on Wednesday, January 7, Wheeling Fire and Police, Ohio County Sheriff’s Office, Wheeling-Ohio County Emergency Management Agency and other agencies responded to the collapse of the Washington Avenue Bridge over Wheeling Creek. Contractors were in the process of demolishing the bridge, which had been closed since early December, when the incident occurred. Three workers were on the bridge at the time of the collapse and fell into the waterway. Two sustained non-life-threatening injuries, while a third suffered a serious injury. All were conscious and transported to Wheeling Hospital for medical evaluation. Emergency crews cleared the scene by approximately 3 p.m. and turned the area back over to the contractor."

Alex Christopher: Charles J. Merlo out of PA is the contractor. He won the bid at $5.3 million.

Johnny Dobbs shared

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WTOV NEWS9

Ohio Valley Sirens and Shenanigans posted

Wheeling WV

WASHINGTON AVE BRIDGE HAS COLLAPSED 

1:47p.m 1/7/26

Report of equipment in the creek. 3 people with injuries. 

The Bridge has been closed for a month, construction was taking place.

📸 Provided by Gunner Thompson

The Times Leader posted
Three workers from a demolition crew were injured Wednesday afternoon when the Washington Avenue Bridge collapsed into Wheeling Creek while they were working to dismantle the bridge deck. See story here: https://tinyurl.com/bdeewdf7 [paycount of 3]
"Built in 1947, the Washington Avenue Bridge was a floating-cantilever style span."

Claire O’Neil - WTOV News9 posted six photos with the comment:

WASHINGTON AVENUE BRIDGE COLLAPSE—

First responders responded to the collapse around 1:40pm to a collapse. Local residents heard a loud noise.

According to the Wheeling Police Department, three individuals that were working on top of the bridge were injured during the collapse and have been taken to the hospital. One serious injury and two minor injuries, but all non-life threatening.

DOH, DEP, and local contractors are on scene now to detect what to do next.

More tonight at 5pm.

Photos by Mechelle Robinson.

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3:00 video
West Virginia Bridge Collapse

1925,1983 Hilliard Road Bridge over Rocky Road

(Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Brian Jules posted eight photos with the comment: "Rocky River Ohio with the 1925 Hillard rd concrete open arch spandrel bridge across the valley. The bridge has been dutifully spanning the Rocky River valley for one hundred years. The bridge had a major renovation from 1980-1983 with the deck replaced as well. Sadly continued  high maintenance and rebuild cost has forced this bridge to be replaced in the near future."

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Street View, May 2024

HistoricBridges
The bridge is 860' (272m) long with a main span of 220' (67m).
There are plans for demolition and replacement.

Bridges of Metropolitan Cleveland via BridgeHunter

1922-79 North Hill Viaduct and All American Bridge over Little Cuyahoga River in Akron, OH

Viaduct: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges) 

Bridge: (Satellite)

Boston Public Library Flickr via ArchivedBridgeHunter, License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)

Michael Gearhart posted
A different image of the North Main Street Viaduct, looking south toward downtown Akron. The large round structure was on property belonging to East Ohio Gas. The church just in front of it was Holy Cross Church on East Lods Street. All of these houses would eventually be replaced by the Elizabeth Park housing project.

Bryan Porter: This was either late 20's or the 30's. The original Beech st. power plant is in the picture. The new one was built in the early 40's in stages and I don't see it. Very cool picture of Akron when we were a good productive city.

Cat Bartlett: I was there in 1976 when the demolition of the Viaduct bridge began. My uncle even had one of the streetlights from the bridge!

Vince Nicklin posted
 believe this was taken from St. Thomas in 1978. Just before the viaduct demolition.

Street View, May 2024

Erie Canal Aqueduct over Otsquago Creek in Fort Plain, NY, Destroyed by flood in 1981

Lost Aqueduct: (Satellite)

1931 Otsquago Creek Bridge: (Archived Bridge Hunter; Bridge Hunter; no Historic Bridges; Satellite)

Erie Canal Overview

Joel Torres posted two photos with the comment:

The Fort Plain Aqueduct was destroyed by flooding in October 1981😢

Fort Plain,N.Y.

Darren Bellen: If i remember correctly , it wasn't actually an aqueduct it was the tow path bridge ?

Noel Ramage: Darren Bellen both. What you could walk across was the tow path bridge but on the other side(from the perspective of the photo) are the support trusts that held the wooden aqueduct runway. Both parts make up an aqueduct, only the stone remains on all but one (Camillius Aqueduct is fully restored and rewatered.) I have lived in Palmyra for most of my life where we have one as well and didn't learn this until my early 30s. Pretty amazing how little I learned about the canal in school. Grew up fishing the off/under aqueduct, driving by it every day and didn't understand what it was until a few years ago when joining this group. The Palmyra Aqueduct's middle two trusts are starting to settle and sink and I fear this same situation is soon to happen if nothing is done to restore it.

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Jeff Miller commented on Joel's post
The footers are still there…
[As is typical with Facebook comments, he didn't bother to give a location.]

Jeff Miller commented on Joel's post
A little foundation is left as well…
[I can see the footings in the water, but I could not find this bridge. It is not today's trail bridge.]

Dennis DeBruler: Jeff Miller Where is this bridge? I have ruled out the trail bridge and the Hancock Street Bridge.

Be warned, I was confused as to how the canal crossed Otsquago Creek when I studied the Erie Canal in Fort Plain. Now that I have more information, I was confused for a long time because I thought we were looking downstream in the following photo since the middle arches have been pushed back and there is a tree trunk lodged against the aqueduct. But Geoff's bridge photo and street view below taught me that we are looking upstream. (I'm still assuming that Otsquago Creek flows East into the Mohawk River.) Another source of my confusion is that the 1898 topo map shows the canal paralleling Canal Street across the creek. I now think it angled east from today's Legion Street just a little south of River Street.

Back in the days of the canal, it was Canal Street, not Legion Street, that crossed the creek.

1898/1954 Canajoharie Quad via Dennis DeBruler

2021 photo by Geoff Hubbs via BridgeHunter

This house that is in both of Joe's photos at the top of these notes is on the south side of the bridge.

Street View, Oct 2024

The next available topo map shows the 1931 Hancock Street Bridge. But it makes the aqueduct look like the State Street road bridge.

1944/53 Canajoharie Quad @ 24,000

I started out with this aerial photo because it was supposed to have a better resolution.

Sep 23, 1958 @ 25,000; ARA550500131112

But it did not look very good, so I got the other available aerial. It looks better. Given the diagonal treeline on the north side of the aqueduct, I think the canal angled over until it got to today's Legion Street and then it went through town parallel to Canal Street.

Oct 21, 1959 @ 60,000; ARB593500800779

This tree line on the north side of town and...

Satellite
Lock E15 is part of today's Barge Canal.

...these topo maps indicate that the canal went behind the buildings on the east side of Canal Street.

1944 Fort Plain and Canajoharie Quads @ 24,000

So this is my current theory as to how the canal went through the town.

Satellite plus Paint

1932 Erie Canal Jordan Aqueduct over Skaneateles River in Jordan, NY

(Satellite)

Erie Canal Overview

Street View, Apr 2023

Jules Hoepting, Feb 2024

Jules Hoepting, Feb 2024

1900/00 Baldwinsville Quad @ 62,500

Joel Torres posted two photos and a video with the comment:

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Maureen J. Doyle commented on Joel's post
Here is the Jordan Aqueduct over Skaneateles Creek.