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<blockquote data-quote="Kias" data-source="post: 142593" data-attributes="member: 9496"><p>Day 117 (Scooter Ride Day!)</p><p></p><p>Lockport Bridge, Williams County, Ohio. This is a Modern Howe Truss Bridge with laminated timber. No steel beams were used. Built in 1999 which replaced a boring bridge. It was originally a Howe Truss Bridge, but that was removed in 1919 when the boring bridge was installed. It's gone full circle!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]34354[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>It has an attached pedestrian walkway on one side. This bridge crosses the Tiffin River.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]34355[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>See those specks on the walkway? Ok, now go to the next photo.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]34356[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Today, the bridge had a ton of Boxelder Bugs! They were everywhere.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]34357[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p></p><p>Onto Goll Woods we went.</p><p></p><p>The area we live in used to be the Great Black Swamp. Its coverage was estimated at 1500 Sqare miles, stretching from Fort Wayne, IN to Sandusky, OH. It wasn't one continuous swamp, but mostly wetlands, forests, and marshes. It was caused by the last glacier that was hanging out in these areas. The swamp was impassible, as a result, the Michigan and Ohio militias never battled during the Toledo War in 1835 and 1836.</p><p></p><p>The states began a concentrated effort to drain the swamp for agricultural and travel use in 1850. James B. Hill of Bowling Green, OH invented the Buckeye Traction Ditcher. This machine laid down drainage tiles at a record speed. In approximately 40 years, the Great Black Swamp was no more and the area was mostly settled and deforested during the next three decades.</p><p></p><p>In 1837 Peter Goll and his family purchased acreage from the government and set aside 100 acres of this land. They sold it to the State of Ohio in 1966 as a nature preserve. Today, the preserve is 321 acres and is the only remaining virgin forest in Northwest Ohio. Some of the trees are over 400 years old.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]34358[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>One of the gazillion ditches around here that keeps this area from turning back into the Great Black Swamp. Brush Creek starts at my house with field drainage and goes for quite a ways! I do believe it eventually dumps into the Tiffin River.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]34359[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kias, post: 142593, member: 9496"] Day 117 (Scooter Ride Day!) Lockport Bridge, Williams County, Ohio. This is a Modern Howe Truss Bridge with laminated timber. No steel beams were used. Built in 1999 which replaced a boring bridge. It was originally a Howe Truss Bridge, but that was removed in 1919 when the boring bridge was installed. It's gone full circle! [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]34354._xfImport[/ATTACH] It has an attached pedestrian walkway on one side. This bridge crosses the Tiffin River. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]34355._xfImport[/ATTACH] See those specks on the walkway? Ok, now go to the next photo. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]34356._xfImport[/ATTACH] Today, the bridge had a ton of Boxelder Bugs! They were everywhere. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]34357._xfImport[/ATTACH] Onto Goll Woods we went. The area we live in used to be the Great Black Swamp. Its coverage was estimated at 1500 Sqare miles, stretching from Fort Wayne, IN to Sandusky, OH. It wasn't one continuous swamp, but mostly wetlands, forests, and marshes. It was caused by the last glacier that was hanging out in these areas. The swamp was impassible, as a result, the Michigan and Ohio militias never battled during the Toledo War in 1835 and 1836. The states began a concentrated effort to drain the swamp for agricultural and travel use in 1850. James B. Hill of Bowling Green, OH invented the Buckeye Traction Ditcher. This machine laid down drainage tiles at a record speed. In approximately 40 years, the Great Black Swamp was no more and the area was mostly settled and deforested during the next three decades. In 1837 Peter Goll and his family purchased acreage from the government and set aside 100 acres of this land. They sold it to the State of Ohio in 1966 as a nature preserve. Today, the preserve is 321 acres and is the only remaining virgin forest in Northwest Ohio. Some of the trees are over 400 years old. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]34358._xfImport[/ATTACH] One of the gazillion ditches around here that keeps this area from turning back into the Great Black Swamp. Brush Creek starts at my house with field drainage and goes for quite a ways! I do believe it eventually dumps into the Tiffin River. [ATTACH type="full" width="60%"]34359._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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