Charleton Mill Road Covered Bridge 35-29-16#2
Facts
- Overview
- Covered bridge over Massies Creek on Charleton Mill Road in Wilberforce
- Location
- Greene County, Ohio
- Status
- Replaced with a replicated covered bridge using new materials, no original materials were apparently reused.
- Future prospects
- Rehab is in design phase
- History
- Built 1882 by Henry Hebble, replaced with a modern covered bridge in 2013-14
- Builder
- - Henry Hebble
- Design
- Howe through truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 114.2 ft.
Total length: 119.1 ft.
Deck width: 16.1 ft.
Vertical clearance above deck: 13.0 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.72842, -83.87009 (decimal degrees)
39°43'42" N, 83°52'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 17/254023/4401554 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Cedarville
- Average daily traffic (as of 1991)
- 50
- Inventory numbers
- ODOT 2934957 (Ohio Dept. of Transportation structure file number)
WGCB 35-29-16#2 (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 27584 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection report (as of November 2012)
- Overall condition: Poor
Superstructure condition rating: Critical (2 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Deck condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Sufficiency rating: 27.4 (out of 100)
View more at BridgeReports.com
Update Log
- October 5, 2014: Updated by Tony Dillon: Updated status
- August 4, 2014: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Bridge is gone.
- August 4, 2014: New Street View added by Ralph Demars
- March 5, 2013: New photos from Jeffery A Barnes
- November 12, 2011: New photos from Bill Eichelberger
- January 12, 2010: New photos from Anthony Dillon
- September 1, 2008: Updated by Anthony Dillon
- January 30, 2006: Posted photos from Gregory S. Hamilton
Sources
- Gregory S. Hamilton's Photography
- Tony Dillon - spansaver [at] hotmail [dot] com
- Bill Eichelberger
Comments
This is a replica, but I'm glad they at least did this!
Visited this bridge yesterday. There are security cameras on poles, but they are distracting to the overall scene, so I removed them via Photoshop. Very pretty scene.
I visited the bridge today and it appears the bridge was completely rebuilt from the ground up. The road through the bridge is asphalt, although I don't know if the original decking remains below the asphalt or not. Photos taken today.
Safer? Apparently they're still working to sell the "need" to replace.
http://www.wdtn.com/news/local/greene-county/new-bridge-make...
20k is peanuts in government spending! It can cost that much to get a consultant to write a letter saying the bridge is too far gone to repair.
I was at Charlton Mill bridge today and was stupified to see this beautiful bridge had been demolished. So i ask myself..."why was this done? Green county recieved almost $20,000.00 dollars in federal grants to "repair" this historical bridge. This is quite discearning, so what happened to those funds?
No the bridge is gone ... never to return except maybe in a replica form.
Read the article linked in particular the bottom paragraph.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/news/local-govt-politics...
"The county and the Ohio Public Works Commission will split the $700,000 cost of replacing the Charleton Mill Covered Bridge, which closed last year. Geyer said that one was “too far gone” to rehab, but he’s going to put in a new wood truss capable of carrying legal load limits, while maintaining the look of an old covered bridge from the outside."
August 19, 2012
I wouldn't think the bridge is demolished. As you may have read the article on Eric's post, there were plans to rehab the bridge as of last year. Don't know if these went through. There is a chance the bridge has been disassembled and taken elsewhere for cleaning and other rehab work, and may be brought back to place to be reassembled for what it was built for. I have heard stories of this being done to wooden and metal truss bridges in Ohio. This was recently done on the Daleville Bridge in Indiana which worked out well. I'd say the only way the bridge would be gone is if there was a natural disaster or act of vandalism.
I was there today. 3-9-13. Bridge was demolished over the winter...IT IS GONE!
Good to hear, as this and the Engle Mill Bridge are in really bad shape.
Bridge is closed, plans in work to rehab
The lean to this bridge is getting worse. Greene County had better come up with some funding to repair it...or they might lose it.
This page's URL is http://bridgehunter.com/oh/greene/charleton-mill/
This is a replica, but I'm glad they at least did this!