Wood-Covered Bridge, Spanning Main Licking River, Butler

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Butler, Pendleton County, Kentucky, over Licking River, Owner or custodian; State Highway Commission. Address: The Capitol, Frankfort, Kentucky Date built: (approx) Architect J. J. Newman and F, B. Erwin, or builder: Middletown, Ohio Present condition: Number of stories: Material used See descriptive matter below and in construction: drav/ings. Description: The following is an extract from the architectural County Court Order Book in June Term, and historical June 4, Pendleton County Kentucky, Extract from contract: "John Wheeler, A. Phillips, C. H. Lee, Jackson Ducker, and C. A. Wandelohr, commissioners, appointed by the Pendleton County Court to receive proposals and to contract for the construction of bridge over Main Licking River at Butler Station--contracted with J. J. Newman and F.

B. Erwin, at Middletown, Ohio, Contract calls for a double Truss Burr Bridge, with single track 18 feet wide, independent aroh; said bridge to be of three spans of one hundred and fifty- two feet each, said bridge to be built over Main Licking River- at Butler Station at the site of the old lock in said river; the lumber and timber to be used in the construction of said bridge to be of the following kinds: "Chords, white pine; 'braces, pine or poplar; m,"-GuT floor braces, oak; flooring, oak> tv/o inches thick and \- from eight to ten Inches wide; batteris, three inches; shingles, No. 1 pine, eighteen inches long. "Masonry work to be done in good workmanlike manner and be fully completed by the 1st day of January next.

"Consideration of the full and complete per- formance of the second party, the commissioners agree to pay the sum of Eighteen Thousand, Four Hundred and Fifty Dollars, "Dated May 31, and signed; C. A. Wandelohr, C, H. Lee, John Wheeler, A. Phillips. W, A. Bran " This Is said to be the longest wood covered bridge in existence. fgt^ix^^