Bridge across the Ohio River between Huntington, W. Va., and the State of Ohio.

Bridge across the Ohio River between Huntington, W. Va., and the State of Ohio by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce Download PDF EPUB FB2

The same designers produced the East End Bridge across the Ohio River between Proctorville, Ohio, and Huntington, West Virginia, in The East End has a major span of metres ( feet) and a minor span of metres ( feet).

The single concrete tower is shaped like a. The Robert C. Byrd Bridge, a foot continuous truss bridge that crosses the Ohio River between Huntington, West Virginia, and Chesapeake, Ohio.

Photograph. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, >. The East And the State of Ohio. book Bridge (officially the Frank Gatski Memorial Bridge, also called the East End Bridge or the 31st Street Bridge) is a foot ( m) cable-stayed bridge crossing the Ohio River at Huntington, West Virginia.

It carries WV on the West Virginia Crosses: Ohio River. The suspension bridge tradition continues in West Virginia today, but in the form of cable-stayed bridges such as the spectacular single-pier bridges crossing the Ohio River at Weirton and Huntington.

In cable-stayed bridges the support cables fan directly from the tower to the bridge deck, and not from a suspended cable. - The Silver Bridge was the only bridge across the Ohio River between Middleport, OH and Huntington, WV. A major east-west connection for US Route 35 connecting Charleston, WV and the State of Ohio.

book major cities in Ohio. The Silver Bridge was also the local link for people doing business in both Point Pleasant, WV and Gallipolis, OH. It collapsed inkilling 46 people. The Blennerhassett Bridge carries US 50 across the Ohio River between Belpre, Ohio to Parkersburg, West Virginia.

It is distinctive for its tied-arch design and for its graceful crossing over Blennerhassett Island. So-called by Point Pleasant-area residents viewing its silvery aluminum paint for the first time, the Silver Bridge was designed by J.E.

Greiner Company and built by Gallia County Ohio River Bridge Company (later West Virginia-Ohio Bridge Company) and its subcontractor, U.S. Steel’s American Bridge.

14 rows  This is a complete list of current bridges and other crossings of the Ohio River from the. The Silver Bridge was the only bridge across the Ohio River between Middleport, OH and Huntington, WV. A major east-west connection for US Route 35 connecting Charleston, WV and major cities in Ohio.

The Silver Bridge was also the local link for people doing business in both Point Pleasant, WV and Gallipolis, OH. It collapsed inkilling 46 people. Fortunately we crossed it 6 years prior. Also known as the New Steubenville Bridge, it connects Weirton with Stuebenville, Ohio.

By Jody Brumage The Huntington Herald-Dispatch published an editorial on Octo on the tenth anniversary of the collapse of the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. However, the editorial was more than a remembrance of the 46 people who died in the accident.

The paper lamented the deteriorated state of Huntington’s Sixth Street Bridge and penned the concerns of many area. Veterans Memorial (Weirton-Steubenville) Page Content Similar in appearance to the Ohio River crossing at East Huntington more than miles to the south, the cable‑stayed Veterans Memorial Bridge carrying US 22 between Weirton, West Virginia and Steubenville, Ohio is instead a monolith of both concrete and steel, combining the strengths of both.

The East Huntington Bridge (officially the Frank Gatski Memorial Bridge, also called the East End Bridge or the 31st Street Bridge) is a foot ( m) cable-stayed bridge crossing the Ohio River at Huntington, West : Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA. The East End Bridge connects Proctorville to Huntington, West Virginia across the Ohio River.

Proctorville is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the census, the MSA had a population ofThe land where Proctorville is now situated was originally settled in and called Quaker Bottom. The Ohio River is a mile (1, km) long river in the United States.

It is located in the midwestern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania south of Lake Erie to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of is the third largest river by discharge volume in the United States and the largest tributary by volume of the north-south flowing Mouth: Mississippi River.

Bridges spanning across the Ohio River are seen between West Virginia and Ohio, seen from Parkersburg, West Virginia, where the chemical PFOA leeched into the water supply. File photo/The Herald-Dispatch On Dec. 15,the Silver Bridge fell into the Ohio River. The year-old bridge carried U.S.

35 over the Ohio River and connected downtown Point Pleasant,   CHARLESTON, - Ben Cedar crossed the Silver Bridge three times on the day it was working as a Kirby sweeper salesman back then, and crossing the bridge.

Bellaire Toll Bridge (Belmont County, Ohio) Operated as a privately owned toll bridge unitl when Ohio DOT cut off the west approach to build a new OH 7.

Now owned by KDC investments which is in litigation with three companys who claim they paid for the exclusive scrap rights. Huntington is in the southwestern corner of West Virginia, on the border with Ohio, on the southern bank of the Ohio River, at the confluence with the Guyandotte River.

The city lies within the ecoregion of the Western Allegheny Plateau. Most of the city is in Cabell County, for which it is the county es: Cabell, Wayne. The town voted to secede, reportedly the only town along the Ohio River to do so, and the Virginia state flag was boldly displayed.8 A meeting held in Guyandotte on April 20 was attended by several local militia companies and a large number of county residents.Sistersville Ferry on the Ohio River.

The Ohio River rises at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the Allegheny River and the Monongahela Pittsburgh, it flows northwestward to Chester, West Virginia, where it turns southwestward and courses for more than miles across the western flank of West Virginia to Kenova, West Virginia, where it is joined by the Big Sandy River.West Virginia Route 75 between Kenova and Wayne is flooded.

Route 60 West near the James River bridge is flooded. Between 60 and 62 feet, 3rd Avenue (Ohio Section) at feet and C&O Railroad West at feet, Flood Gates are closed. Ohio Route 7 near Chesapeake and at Proctorville is flooded between 59 and 60 feet.