Suspension Bridges Crossing Kingsbury Run
This is a list of the only bridge from the suspension bridge inventory crossing Kingsbury Run. Please note that different rivers with the same name will be grouped together. For example, selecting 'Bear Creek' shows bridges across several different Bear Creeks. Also, similarly named rivers are grouped separately. For example, 'River Dee' (UK) bridges are grouped separately from 'Dee River' (Australia) bridges. Wherever you see a Bridgemeister ID number click it to isolate the bridge on its own page.
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1931: Sidaway
Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Kingsbury Run
| Bridgemeister ID: | 171 (added before 2003) |
| Year Completed: | 1931 |
| Name: | Sidaway |
| Location: | Cleveland, Ohio, USA |
| Crossing: | Kingsbury Run |
| Coordinates: | 41.477805 N 81.642944 W |
| Maps: | Acme, GeoHack, Google, OpenStreetMap |
| Principals: | Wilbur Watson, Fred Plummer. New York, Chicago, and St. Louis Railroad Co. |
| References: | BMC |
| Use: | Footbridge |
| Status: | Derelict, since 1966 (last checked: 2023) |
| Main Cables: | Wire (steel) |
| Suspended Spans: | 3 |
| Main Span: | 1 x 121.9 meters (400 feet) |
| Side Spans: | 2 x 42.7 meters (140 feet) |
| Deck width: | 6 feet |
Notes:
- 2023, February: Given landmark status by the Cleveland City Council so that it is eligible to receive grants for preservation.
- BMC describes a feud between the neighborhoods on either side of the bridge that led to events in July 1966: "someone set fire to the wooden deck and ripped out fifteen feet of the southern portion. The bridge now is considered a nuisance."
- 2022, October: Added to National Register of Historic Places.
External Links:
- Sidaway Bridge once connected Black and white neighborhoods. Now it connects us to the past.. July 22, 2020 news article by News 5 (ABC) Cleveland.
- Structurae - Structure ID 20015438
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