Explore the historic National Road through Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, from Zane’s Trace and Ohio’s surviving S bridges to Wheeling’s suspension bridge and Brownsville’s early crossings. This journey follows one of America’s earliest great highways through the towns, bridges, and landmarks that still mark its route.
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Back in February, I made a day trip across northwest Indiana to visit a group of notable bridges.
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The Cline Avenue Bridge may be new, but its history is tied to one of Indiana’s deadliest construction disasters.
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In eastern Ohio, the story of one railroad mirrored the rise and decline of regional heavy industry. The Lake Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio once carried the coal and iron ore that sustained the region’s steel economy. Today, much of its former right-of-way has been repurposed as a public trail, preserving the corridor in a new and enduring form.
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Last winter, I made a slow, cold-weather circuit through Putnam and Owen counties in west-central Indiana.
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A fresh snowfall set the terms for the trip to a former railroad tunnel and three covered bridges in Washington and Greene Counties in Pennsylvania.
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On a warm winter afternoon, I set out to explore the bridges of Bartholomew County, Indiana, following crossings that traced more than a century of local transportation history. While Columbus is widely known for its architecture, its bridges—rural, urban, abandoned, and modern—offered a clearer sense of how people once moved across this landscape and how those routes have evolved.
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Planning for a highway around Cincinnati shaped the development of several Ohio River crossings.
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An unassuming railroad bridge over Interstate 75 in Lockland has a history that long predates the highway beneath it.
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The Blome Road Bridge stands as a rare example of 19th-century bridge engineering and one of the last known works of the Queen City Bridge Co.
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