List of Ashtabula County covered bridges

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The following is a list of covered bridges in Ashtabula County, Ohio, USA. Ashtabula County has the most public covered bridges – currently 16 – of any county in Ohio, with 5 having been newly constructed since 1983. The 17th covered bridge in the county is currently under construction, and it will be the longest covered bridge in the United States. Its anticipated completion date is by Fall 2008.^[1] It will be ready in time for the 25th annual Ashtabula County, Ohio, Covered Bridge Festival in 2008, which is held the 2nd weekend of October. Self-driven tours of the existing bridges can be had any time of the year by following signs posted in the county.

Contents 1 Existing bridges 1.1 Public, drivable covered bridges 1.2 Former and other bridges 2 References

[edit] Existing bridges

[edit] Public, drivable covered bridges

Benetka Road Bridge Caine Road Bridge Creek Road Bridge Doyle Road Bridge Giddings Road Bridge Harpersfield Bridge Mechanicsville Road Bridge Middle Road Bridge

Netcher Road Bridge Olin’s Bridge Riverdale Road Bridge Root Road Bridge South Denmark Road Bridge State Road Bridge Windsor Mills Bridge

[edit] Former and other bridges

• Future Ashtabula County Covered Bridge (bridge yet to be named)
• Graham Road Bridge
• The South Ridge Road Covered Bridge spanned the Conneaut Creek in Kingsville.
• In Kellogsville there were four covered bridges over the Ashtabula River within four miles of each other.
• The Pierpont Covered Bridge was north of Pierpont on State Route 7.
• The Callendar Road Covered Bridge, lost in the flood of 1913, spanned the Grand River near Rock Creek.
• The Muller Covered Bridge in Jefferson.
• A two-lane covered bridge was located on State Route 45 in Rock Creek; after a century it was replaced in 1948.
• The Old Route 7 Covered Bridge, over the Conneaut Creek in what is now Conneaut was built in 1867 and replaced in 1925.
• The Twin Covered Bridges of Farnham spanned the Conneaut Creek in what is now Conneaut.
• The Kellogsville Covered Bridge.
• The Prim's Sawmill Covered Bridge.
• The Forman Road Covered Bridge in Eagleview (near Austinburg) is now part of Covered Bridge Pizza in North Kingsville and Andover; it was sold for $5.00, cut in half, dismantled, and reassembled in the two locations.
• The Fobes Road Covered Bridge.
• The Furnace Road Covered Bridge spanned Conneaut Creek in Conneaut.
• The Crooked Gulf Covered Bridge was the first one one to span the Ashtabula River.
• The Wayne Township Covered Bridge was on U.S. Route 322.

Ashtabula County has had 62 covered bridges.

[edit] References