Fitchville Bridge carried U.S. Route 250 over the Vermilion River from 1929 to 2013 as a six-span, open spandrel, concrete rib-arch bridge. It was built for the Ohio Department of Highways after an 1885 bridge at the site collapsed under a heavy truckload in March 1928. The replacement contract was awarded to William A. Yeagle of Clyde, Ohio, on June 15, 1928, at a cost of $34,802.17. In 2006, the bridge was determined eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places by the Ohio Historic Preservation Office and Ohio Department of Transportation as a representative example of an open-spandrel concrete arch designed by M.X. Wisda and D.H. Overman of the Ohio Department of Highways Bureau of Bridges, a recognized leader in bridge design across the country during the late 1920s and 1930s. Overman served as a design engineer in the Bureau of Bridges from 1925 through 1964, and his bridge designs were known for aesthetic details, custom railings, and a light, graceful appearance. The Fitchville Bridge was drawn shortly after Overman's contribution to the 1927-built Ashtabula Viaduct, a 1200-foot-long open-spandrel arch spanning the Ashtabula River Valley on U.S. Route 20. In the Fitchville design, Overman used simple classical revival aesthetics in recessed panels on the four large railing posts at the corners of the main spans, arched openings in the original railing, capitals on the spandrel columns, and curved concrete consoles under the deck. The earliest concrete arch bridges were of the closed spandrel type, with arches sealed and filled with dirt to support the roadway, but advances in steel-reinforced concrete led to open-spandrel bridges whose graceful visual appeal enhanced scenic and prominent locations. A similar open spandrel arch bridge was built in 1933 at Wakeman on U.S. 20, also crossing the Vermilion River.