The annual Roebling Bridge photo contest is accepting photo submissions during the month of July, starting July 1st and ending on July 31st, 2024. This very popular photo contest of one of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky's most visible historical icons attracts photographers and photos of both amateurs and professionals alike. Capture a piece of history in your lens and submit your photo into the contest!

New Youth Participation Level

We are excited to announce a new competition division for youth aged under 18. Hello all you young creators, we invite you to step into the big leagues. Please enter the photo contest. You can enter for free!

New "Open" Category

If you love the bridge, but photography is not your preferred artistic expression, no problem!  Announcing the new "Open" category. Incorporate the bridge in your favorite art form and scan it or take a quality picture of it. Then submit your entry in the "Open" category. We'd love to have images of your artwork, painting, 15 second video, needle-point, sculptures, etc., and AI enhanced or AI produced images of the bridge. Don't hold back. Show us what you've got!

Jump in to the deep end of discovery concerning water levels, bridge heights and fact vs. lore. Elizabeth Mariner has written a facinating article documenting all this, and her discovery process. This is a must-read for those who like the bridge as we see it today and like knowing how users of the bridge in the past experienced a different river than ours today. Exactly how high is the bridge? And how deep is the water below? Read and learn!

(Photo: Elizabeth Mariner)

WCPO Channel 9 did a wonderful informational editorial on the flag change on the John A. Roebling Bridge and shared some very nice background information on the Covington-Cincinnati Roebling Bridge Committee as well. This is a very well-done video and is a recommended watch.

The Covington-Cincinnati Suspension Bridge Committee (CCSBC) receives some exposure from Sam Rosenstiel from The Cincinnati Magazine. His article details the beautification and maintenance work of the committee and a splash of bridge and John A. Roebling trivia.

Ralph Wolff, CCSBC former president, shares a refinement of this story:

The tour group that John Roebling brought from New York traveled by rail instead of by boat. This was in April 1869, nearly two years after Roebling had been named chief engineer for the proposed Brooklyn Bridge, and just nine weeks before the tragic mishap that would take his life.

John Roebling wanted these persons to see bridges he had designed and built at Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Niagara Falls. In Cincinnati, the contingent stayed at the Burnet House on Third Street and walked to the bridge on the morning after their arrival.

One of the group was Thomas Kinsella, Editor of the Brooklyn Eagle. He reported back to his readers that the bridge at Cincinnati was "the stateliest and most splendid evidence of genius, enterprise, and skill it has been my lot to see."

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