Mull Covered Bridge
Coordinates: 41 ° 15 ′ 39 " N , 83 ° 11 ′ 4" W
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| Crossing of | East Branch Wolf Creek | |
| place | near Burgoon ( Ohio ) | |
| completion | 1851 | |
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The Mull Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge in the northwest of the US state of Ohio . It was found near Burgoon in Sandusky County in the mid-19th century . Although the bridge is no longer used for general traffic, it has been preserved and is now a listed site on the National Register of Historic Places .
history
In 1851, Amos Mull, who owned a sawmill on East Branch Wolf Creek in Ballville Township , had a major problem: the watercourse prevented potential customers from visiting the business premises. Following a petition to the Countyverwaltung in which he asked for help, the council agreed to give him a grant of 75 US dollars grant to build near Mulls shore-level house is a covered bridge, and Mull agreed to the Providing lumber for the construction. The structure is a lattice girder bridge , which consists of many diagonally arranged elements - these were put together from the timber cut in Mull's sawmill. The sides of the bridge are clad with vertically aligned boards. The roof is a tin roof and the abutments are made of stone. The bridge is 30 m long and consisted of just one superstructure . Since a pillar of concrete was added at an unknown time in the middle, which is span decreases.
After the structure had been in operation for more than a century, the Mull Covered Bridge closed to traffic on August 2, 1962, and a new concrete arch bridge was built to carry the local road over the creek that was originally the old bridge had used. The Sandusky County Historic Society saw a point in preserving the historic fabric and put pressure on the county's councils to approve the preservation. The request was successful and the bridge was kept as a memorial. Twelve years later, the bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for being an example of the methodology used in its construction. In 1974, the bridge was one of only three covered bridges left in northwest Ohio and only one of eleven lattice girder bridges in the state. In 1990 the bridge was renovated. It is the oldest covered bridge in Ohio today. There is now no other covered bridge in Sandusky County, although six more - including a 300-meter-long railway bridge over the Sandusky River - have been built.
Web links
- Mull Covered Bridge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b National Register Information System . In: National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service . Retrieved July 9, 2010.
- ^ A b Mull Covered Bridge , Ballville Township , 2010. Retrieved January 23, 2012
- ^ A b c Lorrie K. Owen: Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places . Vol. 2. St. Clair Shores : Somerset, 1999, p. 1232.
- ↑ a b Mull Covered Bridge ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ohio Historical Society , 2007. Jan. 23, 2012
- ^ A b c Elma Lee Moore: Ohio's Covered Bridges . Charleston : Arcadia, 2010, p. 105.
