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Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge 35-58-15
Description
Photos of restored bridge can be seen here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152629582333530....Facts
- Overview
- Multiple Kingpost through truss bridge over Wolf Creek on TR21
- Location
- Morgan County, Ohio
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1872 NE of Chesterhill, restoration completed in July 2014.
- Design
- Multiple Kingpost through truss
- Dimensions
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Span length: 81.0 ft.
Total length: 81.0 ft.
- Also called
- Williams Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.50283, -81.83399 (decimal degrees)
39°30'10" N, 81°50'02" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/428296/4372910 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Stockport
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 35-58-15 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 36801 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- October 8, 2015: New photos from Bill Eichelberger
- August 13, 2015: New photos from Bill Eichelberger
- May 25, 2015: New photos from Janis Ford
- August 25, 2014: Updated by Tony Dillon: Bridge restored and reopened to traffic
- February 16, 2010: Updated by Anthony Dillon: Added GPS coordinates
- July 4, 2008: Added by Anthony Dillon
Sources
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Janis Ford
- Bill Eichelberger
Comments
Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge
Anthony Dillon takes very excellent pictures. The bridge is probably named from a mill that may have existed at one time. It would be a sweet research project to look up the history of the bridge. I would do it if I was near it.
Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge
Photos are beautiful. Does anyone know which Barkhurst the bridge was named for or any details about its history?
Thanks.
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There was indeed a gristmill close to the bridge which it derived it's name from. People in and around Chesterhill don't know it by this name, they call it the Williams Bridge. Some accounts have the old mill standing into the 90's. Bryan Ketcham in his 1969 book only makes reference to it being there in "earlier days". Last year when I was there I could find no evidence of one. There was a house close by, and perhaps it was built on the foundation of the old mill.