Nomination for Lockington Covered Bridge

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Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR IX State (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE - County NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY DATE (Type all entries - complete applicable sections) AND/ OR HISTORIC: 3.

CLASSIFICATION (Check One) - Building 4 Public - Unoccupied * Structure - In Process - Preservation work PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) - Agricultural - Private Residence - Scientific OWNER'S NAME: LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: REPRESENTATION IN EXIST ING SURVEYS DATE OF SURVEY: October 1970 - Federal - Local DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: 039 LOCATION 149 Columbus Commercial CATEGORY Both Tennyson Guyer NATIONAL ACCESSIBLE OWNERSHIP Private Military Religious NAME Government Entertainment STATUS Museum Yes: Shelby Restricted REGISTER CODE Sidney Being Considered District COMMON: Public Acquisition: Park Shelby County CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT: Educational Lockington Covered Bridge Court House Survey of Historical Features of Southwestern Ohio 1982 Velma Avenue OWNER OF PROPERTY County road 132 TO THE PUBLIC One mile east of Lockington Ohio Historical Society STREET AND NUMBER: TITLE OF SURVEY: Object Ohio CITY OR TOWN: Site JUN 1 0 1975 MAY Comments DATE (Specify) ENTRY NUMBER Industrial DESCRIPTION - Deteriorated - Unexposed X] Original Site abutments and pier, a wood shingle roof and straight portals.

are used for floor beams. There are 2 steel roda on each panel vertical. 1s not too common in Ohio covered bridges. The bridge is kept in good CONDITION Ruins REGISTER NATIONAL Unaltered This truss type was different from others used before and it Steel channels have been used to reinforce the chords and steel I beams pier are the original cut stone.The roof is of wooden shingles which RECEIVED truss consisting of braces and counterbraces set between wooden verti This bridge is known as the Lockington Bridge and is built on the Long Ohio.This bridge has vertical siding boarded to the eaves,cut stone east of Lockington in Washington Township section 28, Shelby County, bridge spanning the west channel of.the Great Miami River one mile (Check One) overall length is 178'with a clear span of166'.The roadway width is 10";the braces are 2-5"x8#;and the counterbraces are1-5"x 6".

- Excellent DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

- Moved The structure under consideration is a two-span wooden truss covered the outward appearance of the Lockington Bridge has changed little over the years.The bridge has always been unpainted.The abutments and The Lockington Bridge is a 20 panel Long truss built in two spans. The With the exceptiog of the above named additions of steel reinforcements, truss plan which was patented in 1830 by Col.Stephan H.Long of the Fair 16'and the vertical clearance isll'.The truss verticals are 2-5x PERIOD (Check One or More as Appropriate) Urban Planning - Prehistoric STATEMENT OF

Statement of significance

name. Iockington, formerly known as Lockport, came into being with the SIGNIFICANCE Communications Commerce Conservation losophy Architecture Transportation REGISTER Literature Aboriginal Agriculture Industry NATIONAL Theater RECEIVED Music Religion/Phi Pre-Columbian Invention The Lockington Covered bridge is an atbractive covered bridge and very Education Social/Human- Sculpture Cincinnati and Toledo. County and one of only eight Long trusses left in Ohio.At a length Engineering itarian Military Landscape was a bustling and thriving area. According to the county engineer, this bridge was built in 1848,which area around the small communtity of Lockington from which it takes its 18th Century locks here which enabled the canal to float the toats up the 67' rise much a part of the historic area in which it islocated. Political of178',it is also one of the longest covered bridges in ohio.

MAY? Other (Specify) SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) (Check One or More as Appropriate) Art of Loramie Summit which is the highest point in the canal between AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE The Lockington Covered Bridge is a part of the historically significant would mean that it was built during the hey-day of the canal when this Press, 1970, p. 45. Goulder, Grace, This is Ohio, The World Publishing Company, 1965, p. 269. Ketcham, Bryan E-, Covered Bridges on the Byweys of Ohio, Oxford Printing Company, 1969, p.

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Bibliography, boundary description, and the people who prepared and reviewed the nomination.

GEOGRAPHICAL DATA LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY DEFINING THE LENTER POIN I OF A PHOPERTY OF LESS THAN TEN ACRES N 40° W 84° 12' 56 " UTM OK July 25, 1974 STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: STATE LIAISON OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL REGISTER VERIFICATION I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion Nationa 1 Register. in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1973-729-147/1442 3-l 039 Degrees LATITUDE ORGANIZATION Columbus DATE LONGITUDE COUNTY Seconds STATE Name Title CORNER ATTEST: Minutes CODE Degrees Minutes Seconds less than one 3155 Whitehead Road MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Shelby County. Record Books of the Southern Ohio Covered Bridge Association, Volume 7, NAME AND TITLE: FORM PREPARED BY As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na- ILIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES MAY? level of significance of this nomination is: Nati Keeper of The Ohio Covered Bridge Committee 1975 Ohio Miriam F.

Wood Allen, Richard S.,Covered Bridges of the Middle West, Stephan Greene APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: National 1 Accept ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN Inventory Wks REVIEW UNIT CHIEF KEEPER OTHER CONTROL Maps Entered ARCHEOLOGIST Photos HISTORIAN Review 8-5-75 TECHNICAL Federal Register Entry National Register Write-up 75001532 CTO HAER BRANCH CHIEF Re-submit 5,/9.75 Working Number 5, 2, 75. 8l3 Cole 6.3.75 "One of only eight Long trusses leftin Dhin® JUN 1 0 1975 IN T : 2106 - 74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No. 7 State Send-back 5.8. 75 5- 8-75 5.6. 75 Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR LOCA TION STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: December, 1974 NEGATIVE FILED AT: 1982 Velma Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

039 NAME COUNTY IDENTIFICATION Ohio Shelby DATE CODE STATE RECEIVED West portal and south side of bridge, looking northeast. PHOTO REFERENCE PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM Lockington Covered Bridge Historic Preservation Office, Ohio Historical Society County Road 132 COMMON: Judith Kitchen ENTRY NUMBER One mile east of Lockington NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) PROPERTY OF TIE NATIONAL REGISTER NATIONAL PARK SERVICE AND/OR HISTORIC: (7/72) FOR NPS USE ONLY PHOTO CREDIT: Shelby NATIONAL 149 1975 Form No. 10-301a UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (Type all entries -attach to or enclose with photograph) ENTRY NUMBER COMMON: Lockington Covered Bridge MAY ÷ 1975 LOCA TION PHOTO CREDIT: Donald Miller Columbus, Ohio 43204 DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. * U.S.

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1973-729-152/ 1446 I[I - 1 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER 039 NAME DATE RECEIVED Shelby NATIONAL COUNTY REGISTER PHOTO REFERENCE CODE Ohio STATE East portal of bridge One mile east of Lockington 149 PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES IDENTIFICATION AND/OR HISTORIC: STREET AND NUMBER: County road 132 CITY OR TOWN: JUN 1 d DATE OF PHOTO: May 1974 NEGATIVE FILED AT: 3155 Whitehead Road (7/72) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Form No. 10-301a NATIONAL PARK SERVICE FOR NPS USE ONLY JUN 1 AND/OR HISTORIC: PHOTO CREDIT: Donald Miller NEGATIVE FILED AT: Columbus, Ohio 43204 NATIONAL DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC.

West portal, south side of bridge, looking northeast * US GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1973-729-152/1446 III - | 149 IDENTIFICATION DATE 039 COUNTY REGISTER LOCATION Shelby NAME STATE PHOTO REFERENCE CODE One mile east of Lockington COMMON: Lockington Covered Bridge County road 132 Ohio PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) 3155 Whitehead Road ENTRY NUMBER (7/72) STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: DATE OF PHOTO: May 1974 1975 RECEIVED 7S MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC2 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR PIQUA EAST QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS STATE OF OHIO 16 736 950 4453 580 N4007.5W8407.5/7.5 May 14, 1975 Dr. William Murtagh, Keeper Department of the Interior National Park Service 18th & C Streets, N.W. Dear Dr.

Murtagh: Enclosed are thirty-eight National Register nominations which were previously sent to Washington, but were returned to us Gretchen Klimoski, Assistant Ohio Historic Preservation Office Ohio Historical Center 1-71& 17th Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43211 (614) 466-8727 Sincerely, National Register of Historic Places stamp before. to be signed by Dr. Thomas Smith, State Historic Preservation Cleveland Group Plan Historic District Roct, A.I. and E.R., Howestead Hon. John H. Glenn, Jr. Hon. Jamas V. Stanton Hon. Charles A. Mosher Hon.

Tennyson Guyer 6/11/75 Location STATE Date Entered Name MMott/row Darke County Cuyahoga County Cleveland ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Also Notified Lockington vicinity Hanhattan Building Lockington Covered Bridge Shelhy County Regional Director, Midwest Region Gxeenville vicinity Lucas County Medina Sinton Homesteed Nodina County Intarstata 7l at i7th Avenue West Union Acams County JUN 1 D 1975 Bear's Mill The Ohio Bietorical Socioty Toledo Columbus,Ohio 2 OTHER NAMES: © date of entry: city / town 1I)CONGRESS. DISTRICT 12)SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL Less - deteriorated 2 2 SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT -3 Dexcellent 9O NOT INTACT-O Kgood -reconstructed 5O UNKNOWN -6 Ounexcavated W NOT APPLICABLE-8 YES -Unrestricted - No Access IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

Dyes Xno - AREAS OF SIGNIFICANGE : 2 ENGINEERING-11 @CLAIMS: explain "first'D - LAW - 16 C RELIGION- 22 - SETTLEMENT-29 - COMMUNICATIONS - 7 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 'oldest' O - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 C HEALTH-27 - MILITARY- 18 - ARCHITECTURE-4 - ECONOMICS-9 - INDUSTRY - 13 - MUSIC - 19 - SOCIAL / CULTURAL -30 C ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 C INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY -20 5 TRANSPORTATION - 25 2 functions B architectural style(s): @engineer: landscape architect / garden designer: S interior decorator: -builder/contractor: _date IIF ADDITIONAL SPACE NEEDED, NUMBER & PUT ON REVERSE 1848 149 6-10-75 Bridge CONDITION Lockington Vernacular Midwest ASSOCIATION 9/6/78 ENTERTAINMENT-26 INSTITUTIONAL: PERSONAL: EVENTS: CURRENTLY: Shelby WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT: LOCAL PRIVATE ORGANIZATION span, major alterations: ADMINISTRATOR: SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN-24OTHER(SPECIFY) master builder: historic events: URBAN PLANNING-31 ARCHEOLOGY-historic Lockington Covered X Bridge vicinity of Dunaltered RECREATION-28 county code: Xaltered Dunexposed covered bridge; one of only 8Long trusses still extant in OH.

Xoriginal site Omoved as it appears on federal register Ofair GNPS REGION: XSTATE 17) features: - LANDSCAPE ARCH.-15 - POLITICS / GOVT.* 21 Ireviewers initials. SAVED? -YES CARCHEOLOGY - prehistori DCOMMERCE -6 16' wide roadway; gabled roof open under eaves/ stone abutments; steel reinforcements. County's only surviving ETHNIC GROUP artist: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET 3artisan: