Home Om2189_3113476_010

Reference URL

Add tags

Comment

Save to favorites

To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed the entire object, paste this HTML in website

To link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this page, paste this HTML in website

Lorain Bridges Dedication Program

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Title	Lorain Bridges Dedication Program
Subject	Transportation Bridges Dedications Rites & ceremonies
Place	Lorain (Ohio) Lorain County (Ohio)
Description	This is the souvenir program for the dedication of the Erie Avenue Bascule and Central High Level bridges in Lorain, Ohio. The dedication took place on September 25th, 1940. It contains a brief history of bridges in Lorain, as well as a program of events. The ten-page program measures 5.75" x 8" (14.61 x 20.32 cm). The Erie Avenue Bascule Bridge, a balanced drawbridge that is opened by sinking the counterbalance and thus lifting the footway into the air, is the bridge closest to Lake Erie in Lorain. It carries Ohio Route 6 (Lake Road) over the Black River. It was re-named the Charles Berry Memorial Bridge to honor World War II Medal of Honor recipient Charles Berry. Corporal Berry was killed in action on March 3, 1945 at Iwo Jima, when he saved his comrades from a live Japanese hand grenade that landed in their foxhole by throwing himself on it. For this act, he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor on December 7, 1945. The Central High Level Bridge, which is large enough for freighters to pass underneath, carries Ohio Route 611 over the Black River in Lorain, Ohio. It was re-named the Lofton Henderson Memorial Bridge to honor a local man killed in service during World War II. Henderson (1903-1942) was shot down by a Japanese plane in the Pacific during the Battle of Midway on June 4, 1942. As his last act of valor, he guided his wounded aircraft into the smokestack of a Japanese aircraft carrier, destroying the enemy vessel in the resulting explosion. For this act he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
Date of Original	September, 1940
Collection	Albert C. Doane Collection
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	Lorain Public Library System
Type	StillImage; 1940
Format	picture

Title	Om2189_3113476_010
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2189_3113476_010.tif
Image Height	2450
Image Width	1720
File Size	296.154 KB

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Home Om2189_3113476_010

Lorain Bridges Dedication Program

Object Description

Description

Tags

Comments

Lorain Bridges Dedication Program

Lorain Bridges Dedication Program

	All
	Pages Enter page numbers or page ranges separated by commas. For example: 1,3,5-12