Rating:
No votes cast
Sunbury Pike Covered Bridge 35-21-47x
Facts
- Overview
- Lost Burr arch-truss covered bridge over Alum Creek on Sunbury Pike (now US 36 - Oh 37)
- Location
- Delaware County, Ohio
- Status
- Destroyed by flooding
- History
- Built 1858; destroyed 1913
- Design
- Burr arch-truss
- Also called
- Myers Mill Covered Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +40.26946, -82.95104 (decimal degrees)
40°16'10" N, 82°57'04" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/334110/4459491 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Kilbourne
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 35-21-47x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 59764 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- December 23, 2021: Updated by Paul Plassman: Added truss type
- February 17, 2014: Added by Sandor Gulyas
Related Bridges
- Sunbury Pike Bridge (Replacement) (Successor)
Sources
- Sandor Gulyas
- Lost Bridges.org - Info
- Paul Plassman
- Delaware County Historical Society - Image
Comments
Sunbury Pike Covered Bridge 35-21-47x
Appears to have been a Burr Arch. Likely built by David Sherman as he built a number of them in this area.
Sunbury Pike Covered Bridge 35-21-47x
Several photos here: http://bigwalnuthistory.org/Local_History/index.html
© Copyright 2021, Historic Bridge Foundation and contributors.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/delaware/sunbury-pike-covered/
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/delaware/sunbury-pike-covered/
Those were some impressive cliffs there for what is really a pretty flat Ohio county. You can still see the tops of them when the water in Alum Creek Lake is low.