Lemuel Chenoweth
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Lemuel Chenoweth (1811-1887) was one of nineteenth century America's master covered bridge builders. He was a carpenter, legislator and self-educated architect who designed and built numerous covered bridges for the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike system of western Virginia (now West Virginia) as authorized by the General Assembly of Virginia between 1846 and 1860.
His surviving bridges are at Philippi and Barrackville and several homes, plus the Huttonsville Presbyterian Church, are among his extant creations.
He was born, lived and died in Randolph County and was buried in the Beverly Cemetery.
[edit] Bridges Designed & Built by Lemuel Chenoweth
- Beverly Covered Bridge, 1847, Chenowith's first bridge (destroyed).
- Middle Fork Covered Bridge, (destroyed).
- Buckhannon Covered Bridge, (destroyed).
- Weston Covered Bridge, across Stone Coal Creek, (destroyed).
- Philippi Covered Bridge, 1852 (surviving).
- Barrackville Covered Bridge (surviving).
A Lemuel Chenoweth House Museum operates in the post and beam house that Chenoweth built for himself in Beverly in 1856.
