Back in Time Ohio's Historic Blaine Hill Bridge

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• Alternative Title:
  Ohio's Historic Blaine Hill Bridge
• Creators:
  Longfellow, Rickie
• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Contributors:
  Davis, Gary
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Bridges
  • Sandstones
  • Arch bridges
  • Historic preservation
  • History
• Series:
  FHWA Highway History Website Articles
• Resource Type:
  Web Document
• Right Statement:
  Public Domain
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States;Ohio
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Abstract:
  Blaine, a small community in Belmont County eight miles from Wheeling, West Virginia, is home to Ohio's oldest sandstone bridge. The historic Blaine Hill "S" Bridge was built in 1828 as part of the National Road project, the first road funded by the federal government. Not only is it the oldest bridge at nearly 178 years, but the longest at 345 feet and the last of the "S" three-arch sandstone bridges on the National Road. Its 6.3 percent gradient from east to west made travel much easier for the early pioneers moving west and having to climb the 500-foot hill out of the valley, as well as across a tributary of the Ohio River called Wheeling Creek.
• Content Notes:
  The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/75754/dot_75754_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 451.49 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
• Main Document Checksum:
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