Michigan's Bridges: Charlotte Highway Bridge at the Historic Bridge Park (4)

August 2011 (42.291 Degrees, -85.115 Degrees) Charlotte Highway Bridge

The Charlotte Highway Bridge has a cracked sign on the lower portal brace that reads 1886, Buckeye Bridge Works, H.P. Hepburn, Engineer and Contractor, Cleveland, Ohio. The sign has floral decorations stamped around the date. The Bridge Hunter Website has an interesting essay on portal braces.

This bridge also has a new black railing which doesn't quite match the bridge but somewhat matches its style. The bridge was made out of wrought iron. It is 177.8 ft long, 14.4 ft wide, and has 14.1 ft of vertical clearance above the deck.

Michigan's Bridges: Charlotte Highway Bridge at the Historic Bridge Park (4) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.