The William H. Harsha bridge is a cable-stayed bridge carrying U.S. Route 62 and

U.S. Route 68 U.S. Route 68 (US 68) is a United States highway that runs for from northwest Ohio to Western Kentucky. The highway's western terminus is at US 62 in Reidland, Kentucky. Its present northern terminus is at Interstate 75 in Findlay, Ohio, though ...

that connects Maysville, Kentucky, and

Aberdeen, Ohio Aberdeen is a village in Huntington Township, Brown County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River southeast of Cincinnati. The population was 1,638 at the 2010 census. History Aberdeen was founded by James Edwards in 1795 and platted by N ...

, over the

Ohio River The Ohio River is a long river in the United States. It is located at the boundary of the Midwestern and Southern United States, flowing southwesterly from western Pennsylvania to its mouth on the Mississippi River at the southern tip of Illino ...

. It is named for William Harsha, who represented the Ohio portion of the area in the United States House of Representatives. Construction on the bridge started in 1997 and it opened in 2000. The bridge has a main span of and a total span of . The Simon Kenton Bridge, a

suspension bridge A suspension bridge is a type of bridge in which the deck (bridge), deck is hung below suspension wire rope, cables on vertical suspenders. The first modern examples of this type of bridge were built in the early 1800s. Simple suspension bridg ...

built in 1932, is located nearby.

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William H. Harsha Bridge
at American Consulting Engineers
William H. Harsha Bridge
at Bridges & Tunnels

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