The William S. Ritchie Jr. Bridge, more commonly known as the Ravenswood Bridge, is a two-lane

cantilever bridge A cantilever bridge is a bridge built using structures that project horizontally into space, supported on only one end (called cantilevers). For small footbridges, the cantilevers may be simple beam (structure), beams; however, large cantilever ...

in the

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, connecting

Ravenswood, West Virginia Ravenswood is a city in Jackson County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 3,865 at the 2020 census. Geography Ravenswood is located at (38.952922, -81.761357), along the Ohio River at the mouth of Sandy ...

and rural

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, across the

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. It has a total length of with a main span of . The bridge was completed in 1981. The bridge replaced a ferry that had crossed the river between Ravenswood at Walnut Street and rural Lebanon Township since at least 1908. When the bridge opened in 1981, on the

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side of the river, the bridge and its approach route carried the Ohio State Route 824 (SR 824). The crossing originally led to a winding two-lane SR 338. On the West Virginia side, the bridge carried West Virginia Route 338. In 2003, the SR 824 and WV 338 designations were removed when the

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relocation in Meigs County was completed and the US 33 designation was moved onto the bridge.

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