The Y Bridge City-MIA! LbNA #32778 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Jul 9, 2007 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Zanesville |
| County: | Muskingum |
| State: | Ohio |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | tresselcat  |
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| Found by: | The Wright Sisters |
| Last found: | Sep 6, 2007 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Jul 9, 2007 |
The Y Bridge City -MIA! It's gone!
The Y Bridge is a part of the Muskingum Improvement system, which included a lock, a canal, and a dam. It was built in 1836-1841. This helped to deepen the Muskingum River to make it navigable for the steamboats from Marietta, Ohio. The canal was 35 feet wide and 160 feet long. The canal brought in pottery, shipbuilders, and grain milling businesses. By using the canal and river system, you could go N to Lake Erie, S to Marietta, E to Pittsburgh, and SW to New Orleans. After 1880, the railroads took the canal business away.
The Y Bridge was rebuilt in 1981. Because of funding they had to rebuild it with solid walls for railings. The people of Zanesville hated it because you couldn't see the river when you drove across the bridge, so as soon as they could, they took the walls down and replaced them with railings you could see through and fancy lights! It is a very interesting bridge!
Zanesville is on I70, 53 miles E of Columbus. If you are coming from the west, get off the Underwood Street exit, turn left, go to Main Street and turn right. Continue until you see the bridge.
If you are coming from the east, get off I70 at exit #152 and go west on Rt. 40 until you see the bridge.
Go to the east span of the bridge. Immediately before the east span starts, there is a small park with a scenic walk to the canal lock. Turn in the park and park your car in the first set of parking places. Take a moment to sit on the diagonal bench and observe the Y Bridge of Zanesville, OH. Standing in front of that bench, turn counter-clockwise and go to the other bench that you see. From that bench, there is a steep path (be very careful, it does not have steps and should not be attempted when the ground is wet). Go down that path where people go to the river to fish. About 15 small steps the path will fork. Take the left fork 6 more steps. Look to your left and you should see a tree that has 3 trunks. There is a hole underneath it. The envelope is under there covered with rocks and old bricks. Please replace carefully.
After you have stamped, take some time to walk the scenic pathway to the working hand- operated lock and lock tender’s house. The path is about a mile total. The park has picnic tables if you have brought food with you. There are also 2 more letterboxes in the Putnam Hill Park that overlooks the Y Bridge. If you go over the west span of the bridge, you can get to these.
The Y Bridge is a part of the Muskingum Improvement system, which included a lock, a canal, and a dam. It was built in 1836-1841. This helped to deepen the Muskingum River to make it navigable for the steamboats from Marietta, Ohio. The canal was 35 feet wide and 160 feet long. The canal brought in pottery, shipbuilders, and grain milling businesses. By using the canal and river system, you could go N to Lake Erie, S to Marietta, E to Pittsburgh, and SW to New Orleans. After 1880, the railroads took the canal business away.
The Y Bridge was rebuilt in 1981. Because of funding they had to rebuild it with solid walls for railings. The people of Zanesville hated it because you couldn't see the river when you drove across the bridge, so as soon as they could, they took the walls down and replaced them with railings you could see through and fancy lights! It is a very interesting bridge!
Zanesville is on I70, 53 miles E of Columbus. If you are coming from the west, get off the Underwood Street exit, turn left, go to Main Street and turn right. Continue until you see the bridge.
If you are coming from the east, get off I70 at exit #152 and go west on Rt. 40 until you see the bridge.
Go to the east span of the bridge. Immediately before the east span starts, there is a small park with a scenic walk to the canal lock. Turn in the park and park your car in the first set of parking places. Take a moment to sit on the diagonal bench and observe the Y Bridge of Zanesville, OH. Standing in front of that bench, turn counter-clockwise and go to the other bench that you see. From that bench, there is a steep path (be very careful, it does not have steps and should not be attempted when the ground is wet). Go down that path where people go to the river to fish. About 15 small steps the path will fork. Take the left fork 6 more steps. Look to your left and you should see a tree that has 3 trunks. There is a hole underneath it. The envelope is under there covered with rocks and old bricks. Please replace carefully.
After you have stamped, take some time to walk the scenic pathway to the working hand- operated lock and lock tender’s house. The path is about a mile total. The park has picnic tables if you have brought food with you. There are also 2 more letterboxes in the Putnam Hill Park that overlooks the Y Bridge. If you go over the west span of the bridge, you can get to these.