Mull Covered Bridge

41.260833333333 - 83.184444444444Koordinaten: 41 ° 15 ' 39 " N, 83 ° 11' 4 " W

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East Branch Wolf Creek

Mull Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge in the northwest of the U.S. state of Ohio. It was the mid-19th century near Burgoon in Sandusky County. Although the bridge is no longer used for general traffic, however, was preserved and is now a. Historic site inventory of the National Register of Historic Places

History

In 1851 was Amos Mull, who owned a sawmill on the East Branch Wolf Creek in Ballville Township, a major problem: the watercourse disabled potential customers in finding the permanent establishment. Once an input to the Countyverwaltung in which he asked for help, voted the councils to grant him a subsidy of 75 U.S. dollars to build a covered bridge near Mull shore -level house, and Mull agreed to the to provide timber for design purposes. In the building there is a girder bridge that consists of many diagonal elements arranged - these were made from the cut in Mulls sawmill lumber. The sides of the bridge are lined with vertically aligned boards. The roof is a metal roof and the abutments are of stone. The bridge has a length of 30 m and consisted of only a span, but a pillar of concrete was added at an unknown date in the middle, so that the building now comprises two spans.

After the building was more than a century in operation, the Mull Covered Bridge was closed on August 2, 1962 for traffic, and a new arch concrete bridge was built to carry the local road over the creek, which was originally the old bridge had used. The Historical Society of the Sandusky County saw sense in the preservation of historic buildings and put pressure on the councils of the county from to adopt conservation. The request was successful and the bridge was kept as a memorial. Twelve years later, the bridge on the National Register of Historic Places was included because it is an example of the methodology for its construction. In the year ( 1974) the bridge was a covered by only three bridges in northwest Ohio and only one of eleven girder bridges statewide. In 1990, the bridge was renovated. Today it is the oldest surviving covered bridge in Ohio. In Sandusky County, there are now no other covered bridge anymore, although six others - were built - including a 300 m long railway bridge over the Sandusky River.