Knowlton Covered Bridge | |
Nearest city | Rinard Mills, Ohio |
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Coordinates | 39°36′04″N81°09′26″W / 39.60111°N 81.15722°W |
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 ]
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