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Bennett's Mill Bridge, Spanning Tygart's Creek, East Tygart's Creek Road (CR 1215), Lynn, Greenup County, KY

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Bennett's Mill Bridge, Spanning Tygart's Creek, East Tygart's Creek Road (CR 1215), Lynn, Greenup County, KY

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Summary

Significance: The Bennett's Mill Bridge is the sole surviving Wheeler truss covered bridge in the United States. Patented in 1870 by Isaac H. Wheeler of Scioto County, Ohio, this unusual truss design never made it into the mainstream of bridge building, but it did experience a brief period of popularity in the area around Sciotoville, Ohio, in the early 1870s. The bridge represents a post-Civil War resurgence of covered bridge building that saw innovations in truss design aimed at making wooden bridges increasingly efficient and economical.
Survey number: HAER KY-49
Building/structure dates: 1874-1875 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 2003 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 76000892

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1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Bennett, B F
Reid, A L
Wheeler, Isaac Hastings
Wheeler, William
McGee, E A
Darlington, Joseph
Darlington, Gabriel
Bennett, William P
Bennett, Benjamin F
Federal Highway Association
Bower Bridge Company
Bower, Louis
Intech Contracting
Marston, Christopher, project manager
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Federal Highway Administration, sponsor
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Library of Congress
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