Newell Toll Bridge

Coordinates: 40 ° 37 ′ 12 ″  N , 80 ° 35 ′ 20 ″  W.

Newell Toll Bridge
Newell Toll Bridge on the right and Jennings Randolph Bridge on the left ; Looking south, down East Liverpool
use	Road bridge
Crossing of	Ohio River U.S. Highway 30
place	East Liverpool , Ohio and Newell , West Virginia
Entertained by	Homer Laughlin China Company
construction	Suspension bridge
overall length	485 m
width	7 m
Longest span	226 m
Headroom	4 m
Clear height	27 m
start of building	June 2, 1904
opening	4th July 1905
planner	Edwin Kirtland Morse
location

The Newell Toll Bridge is a two-lane road bridge over the Ohio River between East Liverpool in Ohio and Newell in West Virginia . The toll suspension bridge is owned by Homer Laughlin China Company (HLC), once the largest ceramics manufacturer for dinnerware in the USA. In 1905, the bridge connected the factories in East Liverpool with the new production facilities in Newell on the opposite side of the Ohio. With the expansion of ceramics production in Newell, production in East Liverpool largely ceased in the 1920s. The bridge remained an important link between the two cities and ran a tram line across the river until 1938 . Today it connects West Virginia Route 2 with Ohio State Routes 7, 11 and 39, with a connection to US Highway 30 in East Liverpool . The traffic volume in 2005 was 2000 vehicles per day, but use is restricted to vehicles up to 10 tons.

description

Driveway to the Newell Toll Bridge in Newell, West Virginia. Under the yellow covers are the guides for the suspension cables that are anchored in the abutment (photos from 2009).

Edwin Kirtland Morse from Pittsburgh designed a 7-meter-wide truss reinforcement girder for the 485-meter-long steel suspension bridge , which guides the two-lane carriageway and is supported by steel cables. These in turn are guided over two 46 meter high H- pylons and are anchored in the abutments . The span between the pylons is 226 meters, the carriageway is at a height of about 27 meters above the river. The manufacture of the steel elements and the erection of the superstructure , between June 1904 and July 1905, was carried out by the American Bridge Company . The original deck made of wooden planks was renewed in 1923 and finally replaced with gratings in 1954 .

Upriver follows the Jennings Randolph Bridge of US Highway 30 , which from 1977 replaced a suspension bridge of a similar construction from 1897. The old Chester Bridge between East Liverpool and Chester in West Virginia was demolished in 1970, which significantly increased the volume of traffic over the Newell Toll Bridge until the new bridge was completed .

Web links

• Newell Bridge. Historicbridges.org.
• Newell Toll Bridge. Bridgehunter.com.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Newell Bridge. Historicbridges.org. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Newell Bridge. East Liverpool Historical Society. Retrieved July 10, 2018.
3. ↑ Chester Bridge. Chester, West Virginia. Laurel Hollow Park, Newell, West Virginia. Retrieved July 10, 2018.