Knowlton Covered Bridge

United States historic place


Knowlton Covered Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


39°36′04″N 81°09′26″W / 39.60111°N 81.15722°W / 39.60111; -81.15722 (Knowlton Covered Bridge)
Area	less than one acre
Built	1887
Architectural style	Burr arch truss bridge
NRHP reference No.	80003165^[1]
Added to NRHP	March 11, 1980

The Knowlton Covered Bridge, near Rinard Mills, Ohio, was built around 1860. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1] It was decommissioned shortly after. Also known as the Long Covered Bridge, it is a Burr arch truss bridge.

It is located north of Rinard Mills, and is in Washington Township, Monroe County, Ohio.

The bridge has three spans over the Little Muskingum River. It was rehabilitated in 1995^[2] and documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in 2004.

It is mentioned in the Ohio Historic Places Dictionary.^[3]

The middle span collapsed the evening of July 5, 2019. The Old Camp span has also collapsed, sometime in the summer of 2020.^{[citation needed]} As of March 2024 the bridge is currently under reconstruction. With plans to have it open within a few months.

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
^ "Knowlton Covered Bridge 35-56-18". Bridgehunter.
^ Lorrie K. Owen, ed. (1999). "Ohio Historic Places Dictionary". Somerset Publishers, Inc. p. 973.

External links

Media related to Crum Covered Bridge at Wikimedia Commons

Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. OH-123, "Crum Bridge, Spanning Little Muskingum River, TR 384A (formerly Old Camp Road), Rinard Mills, Monroe County, OH", 15 photos, 1 color transparency, 10 data pages, 3 photo caption pages

U.S. National Register of Historic Places

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