- Zenas King
Zenas King was born in
Vermont in 1818.cite web|url=http://www.kingbridgeco.com/Meet%20Zenas%20King.html|title=Discovering Zenas King / Paper delivered to the Society of Industrial Archeology|author=Allan King Sloan|date=June 5, 1999] . He started his career of building bridges in 1858 and moved from Cincinnati toCleveland, Ohio around 1861. He established a bridge building works on Watson Street in Cleveland in 1865.cite web|title="King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company"|work="The Cleveland Memory Project"| url=http://www.clevelandmemory.org/king/|accessdate=2008-03-05] King founded the King Iron Bridge & Manufacturing Company in 1871. As early as 1878 it was manufacturing many types of truss, combination, and wooden bridges and by the 1880s it was the largest highway bridge works in the United States. Production moved from Watson Street to larger facilities on Ruskin Avenue in 1888. The company changed its name to theKing Bridge Company after the death of Zenas King in 1892. Many of the company's bridges were used during America's westward expansion in the late 1800s and early 1900s and some of these bridges are still standing today.References
ee also
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Thomas William Moseley
*Half Chance Iron Bridge External links
* [http://www.centuryhouse.org/newsletr/summ2000/kingbrdg.html King Bridges in New York State by Allan King Sloan]
* [http://www.kingbridgeco.com The King Bridge Company Museum]
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