Knowlton Covered Bridge

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Knowlton Covered Bridge
Knowlton Covered Bridge Monroe County Ohio.jpg
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Nearest city Rinard Mills, Ohio
Coordinates 39°36′04″N81°09′26″W / 39.60111°N 81.15722°W / 39.60111; -81.15722 (Knowlton Covered Bridge)
Arealess than one acre
Built1887
Architectural styleBurr arch truss bridge
NRHP reference No. 80003165 [1]
Added to NRHPMarch 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.

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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.

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. "Knowlton Covered Bridge 35-56-18". Bridgehunter.
  3. Lorrie K. Owen, ed. (1999). "Ohio Historic Places Dictionary". Somerset Publishers, Inc. p. 973.

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