Ohio
& Erie Canal Towpath Trail Tour
Brecksville/Northfield
High-Level Bridge
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The
Brecksville/Northfield High-level Bridge carries State Route 82 over
the Cuyahoga Valley at the Pinery Narrows. Today it connects the communities
of Brecksville and Sagamore Hills. It was constructed in 1930 and 1931of
steel-reinforced concrete and carries the road surface 145 feet above
the valley floor. This bridge is listed on the National
Register of Historic Places and the Ohio Historic Bridge Inventory.
It was designed by Alfred M. Felgate who was a civil engineer, deputy
county engineer and bridge engineer for Cuyahoga County for over twenty
years.
It is a bridge
that embodies the distinctive characteristics of concrete bridge construction
of the 1920s, however, it also displays the tendency to develop thinner
supporting members. This balance between thinness and safety gives the
structure an elegance that is sought and prized by engineers.
Location: 1/10
of a mile north of the Station
Road Bridge Trailhead in Brecksville, OH.
  


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