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Stratford, Delaware County

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Inventory Number: OH/35-21-26x
County: Delaware County
Township: Delaware
Town/Village: Stratford
Bridge Name: Stratford
Crosses: Olentangy River
Truss type:
Spans: 3
Length: c200'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1852
Builder:
When Lost: 1909
Cause:
Latitude: N40 15.30
Longitude: W083 03.76
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Directions: US23 at Stratford.

Stratford Bridge, Delaware, Delaware County, OH Built 1852 Lost 1913
Todd Clark Collection

Comments:
Per David Simmons, the crossing was 3 spans (rather than 2) and approximately 200 feet. Per the Delaware Semi-Weekly Gazette (Delaware), March 12, 1909, the county was advertising a "BRIDGE-LETTING" for replacement of the covered bridge. with a "3 span through riveted truss steel bridge over the Olentangy river at Stratford, Delaware Township." The spans were to be 70 feet each and new sandstone masonry was being built as well. Per The Tribune (Hicksville), April 22, 1909, "Fifteen men, who were tearing down the old covered bridge at Stratford, Delaware county, were precipitated in to the Olentangy river, when, without warning, the east span of the bridge gave way. How some of the men escaped serious injury can hardly he conceived. All suffered cuts and bruises of a minor nature, together with a ducking In cold water."

Sources:
Clark, Todd. Information received by email, June 2010
The Tribune (Hicksville), April 22, 1909.
Delaware Semi-Weekly Gazette (Delaware), March 12, 1909.
Wood, Miriam. Ohio Covered Bridge Index, Delaware County