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Ashtabula County has 19 covered bridges, [1]: 33 including a lattice truss bridge. Fairfield County has 18 covered bridges. [ 1 ] : 68–69 The Smolen–Gulf Bridge , at 613 feet, is currently the longest multi-span covered bridge in the United States.
The bridge is located 1.6 miles (2.6 km) east-southeast of Ashtabula, at the same location as the previous bridge which carried State Road across the Ashtabula River. The old bridge, a steel bridge built in 1949 (National Bridge Inventory number 0430714), replaced the Crooked Gulf covered bridge (number 35-04-01) built in 1867. [2]
The Eldean Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge spanning the Great Miami River in Miami County, Ohio north of Troy. Built in 1860, it is one of the nation's finest surviving examples of a Long truss, patented in 1830 by engineer Stephen H. Long. At 224 feet (68 m) in length for its two spans, it is the longest surviving example of its ...
Oct. 6—At one time, hundreds of covered bridges dotted northeast Ohio's landscape. A popular construction in 18th century Connecticut, the early settlers of the Western Reserve brought this ...
The Eagle Creek Covered Bridge, in Byrd Township near Decatur, Ohio, was a historic Smith truss covered bridge built in 1875. Also known as the Bowman Bridge, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. [1] Before its destruction it was the longest single-span covered bridge in Ohio.
Langley Covered Bridge, built in 1877, straddles the St. Joseph River and is the longest covered bridge in the state. It was originally projected to re-open by Dec. 25.
The Bridge of Dreams is a 370-foot covered bridge located near Brinkhaven, Ohio.Originally built in the 1920s as a railroad bridge, and covered in 1998.It is the second longest covered bridge in Ohio after the Smolen–Gulf Bridge, and third longest covered bridge in the United States.
At 18 feet (5.5 m), it has been called the shortest covered bridge in the United States. [2] The bridge, one of 17 drivable covered bridges in the county, was designed by John Smolen, former Ashtabula County Engineer and the designer of the Smolen–Gulf Bridge, the longest covered bridge in the U.S., also in Ashtabula County.