Decorative drawing: a timber truss bridge spanning a river on stone piers, side elevation. Not a photograph of this place.

Nomination for Kidwell Covered Bridge

The case file that argued this property on to the National Register: 1,362 words across 9 pages, filed in 1977. Read by 4 independent recognisers, of which at least 3 had to agree before a line was published.

Source document Held by the National Archives in Record Group 79 as reference 77001042, where it exists only as a scan with no text layer. The words below were read off that scan by 4 independent recognisers at two resolutions. Only lines that at least 3 of them returned identically appear below; where they disagreed, the line is withheld rather than guessed, so some of the form's furniture is missing. Spelling is never corrected, so a stray character that all the readers agreed on is the recogniser's and the typewriter's.. Nothing is summarised, corrected or written by this site. See the catalogue record, or return to the property.

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

Form No. 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES APR 1 1 1977 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER Monsrat Road (Iwp. rd. 583), I mile west SR'13 NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT #10 X VICINITY OF STATE ( PRESENT USE WORK IN PROGRESS EDUCATIONAL _PRIVATE RESIDENCE PUBLIC ACQUISITION ENTERTAINMENT OBJECT IN PROCESS - YES: RESTRICTED GOVERNMENT BEING CONSIDERED X YES: UNRESTRICTED MILITARY OWNER OF PROPERTY LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR 039 009 Athens TITLE DATE CODE COUNTY ACCESSIBLE SITE LOCATION CLASSIFICATION OWNERSHIP CATEGORY MUSEUM NAME COURTHOUSE.
PARK COMMERCIAL RELIGIOUS HISTORIC Ohio OTHER: AGRICULTURE Athens County _UNOCCUPIED STATUS PRIVATE Clarence E. Miller SURVEY RECORDS Kidwell Covered Bridge DATA SHEET DATE ENTERED XSTRUCTURE _SCIENTIFIC BUILDING(S) XPUBLIC _BOTH _DISTRICT (Rev. 10-74) REGISTRY OF DEEDS,ETC. _FEDERAL STATE COUNTYLOCAL RECEIVED OCT 1 County Court House X.TRANSPORTATION _INDUSTRIAL PH0308628 OCT11978 DESCRIPTION DETERIORATED FAIR DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

vertical, high-boarded siding, a metal roof, cut-stone abutments and straight its braces and counterbraces of wood and its iron tension rods, was also a CONDITION UNEXPOSED MOVED EXCELLENT tension rods can be tightened up if necessary to straighten and strengthen XUNALTERED still sets on its original cut-stone abutments, but the present metal roof is undoubtedly a replacement for the original shingle roof. The structure under consideration is a one-span wooden truss covered bridge XORIGINAL SITE spanning Sunday Creek in Dover Township section 18 on Monsrat Road (Twp.rd. use of iron tension rods for the truss verticals instead of wood.These iron XGOOD daily traffic.It is painted a deep red on both siding and portals.It the bridges.The railroads were quick to grasp the

From the form

The catalogue entry the section above was filed under.

significance of this and CHECK ONE 17' 6".Height of the trusses is ll' 8" and the overhead clearance is 13'. _RUINS DATE. Bridge isa 10 panel Howe truss, 95'8# long with a 4' 7"overhang on each 583) one mile north of Truetown, Athens County, Ohio. This old span has The Kidwell Covered Bridge is still in good condition and still carries Howe truss was considered to be a bridge engineering advance because it made This old bridge is known as the Kidwell Covered Bridge and was built in l880 AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE -- CHECK AND JUSTIFY BELOW -ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC -COMMUNITY PLANNING -LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE _1500-1599 c EDUCATION _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN ART X 1800-1899 X OTHER (SPECIFY) SPECIFIC DATES STATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE

Statement of significance

serves daily traffic as it nears the century mark. It is a landmark of impor- 1400-1499 Historical 1880 ARCHEOLOGY-HISTORIC PERIOD SIGNIFICANCE AGRICULTURE ARCHITECTURE ECONOMICS THEATER PHILOSOPHY PREHISTORIC BUILDER/ARCHITECT 1900- POLITICS/GOVERNMENT SCIENCE _COMMUNICATIONS RELIGION MILITARY INDUSTRY INVENTION LITERATURE pioneer past. _COMMERCE XENGINEERING _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT MUSIC XTRANSPORTATION shortened from Montserrat, and that name came from one Nicholas Montserrat and coal mine no longer operate near the old covered bridge, heavy traffic Kidwell Covered Bridge is on Monsrat Road, which nane we feel certain is Kidwell and were still in operation in l875 as they are shown in the county CONSERVATION Weethee's academy was never very large, but was still in operation in 1883.
well Grist and Saw Mills on the west bank of Sunday Creek about one quarter of doctor,.minister and teacher, and son of one of the early pioneer families in atlas of that year.One-half mile east of the old covered bridge was the old The Kidwell Covered Bridge was built in l880 to replace an earlier bridge that -1600-1699 Another name assbciated with this vicinity and the bridge is True, an early who owned and operated the Montserrat Coal Mine near the covered bridge. _SCULPTURE some 300 acres near the bridge site in the 1870's.Although mills, college had washed out ina flood.We do not know if this earlier bridge was covered _1700-1799 -LAW tance to the people of the area, a visible reminder of and a link to their this area.The Weethee Family owned nearly 6oo acres in this vicinity.Rev.
a connecting road between SR 13 and 685.The old Kidwell Covered Bridge still still flows across it because the relocation of SR l3 has made Monsrat Road family for whom the small community of Truetowm is named.Austin True owmed Weethee College, a small academy founded in 1865 by J. P. Weethee who was a or not.The name Kidwell comes from the Kidwell Family who operated the Kid

The rest of the file

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Atlas of Athens County, Ohio, 1875, Titus, Simmons and Titus, P. 25. 779 and 780. 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Miriam F. Wood March 10, 1976 STREET & NUMBER 61h-279-9576 CITY OR TOWN 12 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION NATIONAL - LOCAL - As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665). I hereby nominate this property for inclusion in the National Register and certify that it has been evaluated according to the criteria and procedures set forth by the National Park Service.
STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER SIGNATURE KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER ORGANIZATION DATE STATE CODE NORTHING TELEPHONE COUNTY Ohio UTM REFERENCES Ohio Covered Bridge Committee DATE Sept. 21, 1976 3155 Whitehead Road Columbus ZONE EASTING FOR NPS USE ONLY ZONE ATTEST: Record Books of the Southern Ohio Covered Bridge Association, Inc.,Volume l, Athens History of the Hocking Valley, Interstate Publishing Co., 1883, pages 743, 764, 767, 14,316.717201 Photos _ APR 1 1 1977 KEEPER TECHNICAL Send-back ARCHEOLOGIST Entered Maps Review Re-submit Athens REVIEW UNIT CHIEF HISTORIAN National Register Write-up Federal Register Entry State Cole HAER 3.21-77 Accepr ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN BRANCH CHIEF OTHER CONTROL INT:2106-74 United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WASO No.7 11-23-26 Working Number 10, 1. 76. 4247 Inventorydmb 29. X1.H 119/74 negative: 1975 LASZLOG.
KOE-KROMPEC Lazslo G. Koe-Krompecher, Photo G Kidwell Covered Bridge Athens Co.,Ohio PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER DOE APR 1 1 197F JACKSONVILLE QUADRANGLE UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE OF OHIO APR 1 1 1977 Kidwell Covered Bridge U.S.G.S. 7.5' Jacksonville Quadrangle UTMn 405/080 4367/720 OCT 1 1976) 1961 REGISTER Mapped, edited, and published by the Geological Survey Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Hon. John H. Glenn, JI. DI. Thonas H. Smith Kon. Samuel L.
Devina Coluubus, Ohio 43211 Regional Director, Midwest Region / 880 Mott 4/18/77 Location STATE Name Five Mile House Also Notified Date Entered Germantown vicinity Pickerington vicinity ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Koehne-Poast Farm Athens County APR 1 1 1977 Blacklick Covered Bridge Hontgonery County Interstate 7l at 17th Avenue Zaneaville vicinity Kidvell Covered Bridge State Historic Preservation Officer Truetown vicinity Director, The Chio Historical Society Fairfield County Harlen vicinity Muskingua County Delavsre County Jon.Thomas N.Kindness Mott INITIALS: B6 DOE APR 1 1 1977 OTHER NANES: STREET & NUMBER CITY. TOWN CONGRESSIUNAL DISTRICT Athens - FEDERAL (AGENCY NAME) : Unknown - not applicable - 8 -Interio=, exterior, environs not intact-0 CONDITION - UNALTERED LORIGINAL SITE No access "'only" YES ADAPTIVE USE: Saved ?
FUNCTION (S): (use vocabulary words) _LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE - POLITICS GOVERNMENT _OTHER (SPECIFY _INVENTION "first" YES "e oldest?' YES 039 009 code EXPLORATION COUNTY Claims historic district? MIDWEST COMMERCE TRANSPORTATION planning UNEXPOSED LOCATION: Yes-unrestricted SIGNIFICANCE: MOVED ENGINEERING STATE Reviewer DATE: AGRICULTURE ARCHITECTURE FEATURES: FAIR Ohio 10th -recreation -socio/cultural -settlement _Reconstructed _COMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONS ADMINISTRATOR(underline) -entertainment EXCELLENT WITHIN NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK? LITERATURE WITHIN NATIONAL REGISTER HISTORIC DISTRICT? ARCHEOLOGY.HISTORIC _CONSERVATION _RELIGION _PHILOSOPHY Substantially intact-l -ECONOMICS - EDUCATION _Unexcavated _SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC _DETERIORATED -MUSIC 1mi.N of Truetown off OH 13 on Monsrat Rd.
-health IF YES, NAME: -urban & commun GOOD Kidwell Covered Bridge VICINITY OF Truetown WEST PACIFIC NORTHWEST _LAW/Gov't/politics _SCIENCE EXTERIOR INTERIOR OWNER OF PROPERTY: (Circle) - MILITARY _RUINS _Unkncwn ARCHITECTURAL STYLE: DATE (S) OF "MAJOR" ALTERATIONS: FEDERAL AGENCY: SIGNIFICANCE" (maximum two sentences) builder/contractor: artist/artisan: personal engineer: OTHER NAMES: architect/m.builder: STATE events institutional landscape/garden designer: ETHNIC GROUP: appropriate date) PRIVATE interior decorator: COM MENTS: (include architectural information here) LOCAL GOV"T (label role DATE OF CONSTRUCTION (Specific date or 1/4 of century): 1880 ACREAGE: (to nearest tenth of an acre) DATES: COUNTY MUNICIPAL