4^th St. Bridge reincarnated as 3^rd St. Bridge

The new Fourth Street Bridge, which spans Coal Run and Benoni Avenue in Fairmont, is open for traffic but as the Third Street Bridge since it is 350 feet northeast of the historic bridge that was demolished. It goes from Third Street to Fourth Street to get traffic to Locust Avenue, where Fairmont State University and Fairmont Regional Medical Center are located.

The original 251-foot bridge, built in 1911-12, was cited by the National Register of Historic Places for its engineering technology under designer Layton F. Smith of the Trussed Concrete Steel Company of Baltimore. It was a reinformced concrete cantilevered bridge.

It was closed for two years before its demolition in 2016.

Tritton Construction handled the Third Street Bridge project.