Friday, September 23, 2016
Covered Bridge Tour
The Institute for Learning in Retirement hosted a covered bridge tour.
ILR is sponsored by Miami University.
ILR is sponsored by Miami University.
The first covered bridge we visited is no longer in use.
This is the Black (Pugh's Mill) Covered Bridge.
One member of the group remembered riding a buggy through this bridge.
The Black Covered Bridge is a long truss bridge.
It is the third documented covered bridge in Butler County.
Butler County has one other historic covered bridge.
Roger Miller, our leader, prepared information on all the bridges.
Next, we visited the not-so-historic Hueston Woods Covered Bridge.
The Hueston Woods Covered Bridge is located in Preble County.
Decades of use and exposure to the elements took its toll on the previous bridge.
This bridge was dedicated on June 24, 2012.
The bridge crosses Four Mile Creek.
It has 104,100 board feet of lumber, with a life expectancy of 100 years.
The cost to design and build this bridge was almost two million dollars.
Preble County's share was $266,083.20.
It has a Burr Arch truss and is the 32nd covered bridge in Preble County.
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The next stop was at the Robert's Covered Bridge, built in 1829.
This bridge is the oldest of the nation's five remaining double-barrel bridges
and the only one in Ohio.
It is also Ohio's oldest remaining covered bridge.
It was built with a Burr Arch truss.
We walked just south to see the Saint Clair Street Bridge.
This bridge is still in use.
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The Chrisman Covered Bridge is 100 feet long.
This Childs Truss bridge was constructed in 1895 over Seven Mile Creek.
A neighbor walked down to see what we were doing.
He brought a photo album that he had compiled of this bridge being rebuilt.
Now how fortunate was that?
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We drove through West Alexandria where we picked up lunches
at the Tea Room.
We ate box lunches inside the Dixon/Branch Covered Bridge.
This Childs Truss Bridge was built in 1887 across the Dixon Branch.
The Brubaker Road Covered Bridge, built in 1887, is also a Childs Truss bridge.
This bridge is 88 feet long.
Preble County has three historic Childs Truss bridges.
The Childs Truss bridge adds diagonal iron rods to a multiple kingpost design.
Horace Childs checked the iron rods on his bridges each year by listening to the sounds
the iron rods made when hit. He would then tighten or loosen the rods.
Ohio bridge builder, Everett Sherman, used this design exclusively after 1883.
Ruth and I.
Notice all the windows along each side of the bridge.
There is a turn in the road.
The windows allow the traffic to see oncoming traffic.
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The Jasper Road Covered Bridge is a Warren Truss bridge with arch and iron rods added.
This bridge was built in 1870 over Caesars Creek in Greene County.
The bridge was closed in 1964.
It was relocated/reconstructed in 1966.
This bridge is located on private property.
The last bridge is the Germantown Covered Bridge.
This very rare inverted Bowstring Truss bridge was constructed in 1865
by David H. Morrison.
It was moved to this site in 1911 over Little Twin Creek.
Note the bike route turn sign....
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Covered Bridge Numbering System
True Covered Bridges are numbered with a three-part universal identification code
that refers to state, county and specific bridge.
For example, the numerical designation 35-09-03 would read
Ohio-Butler County-Bridge Number 3
(Black Covered Bridge).
The numerical designation 35-68-32 would read
Ohio-Preble County-Bridge Number 32
(Hueston Woods Covered Bridge).
The last numeral indicates there are 32 different covered bridges known
to have been or are in Preble County.
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Sunday, September 11, 2016
Clinton County Corn Festival
Drove up to the Clinton County Corn Festival.
Noticed the 100th anniversary sign for Delco-Light Generating Plants.
Delco - Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company
started by Charles Kettering and Edward A. Deeds
in 1916.
My computer is less than happy with me at the moment and will not upload more pictures.
Will try again later.
We watched the saw mill.
A 1920 Cleveland car. Who knew?
