Nomination for Hildreth Covered Bridge

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Form No. 10-300 (Rev. 10-74) UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR NPS USE ONLY NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SEP 2 8 1977 NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES FEB 8 INVENTORY -- NOMINATION FORM SEE INSTRUCTIONS IN HOW TO COMPLETE NATIONAL REGISTER FORMS TYPE ALL ENTRIES -- COMPLETE APPLICABLE SECTIONS AND/OR COMMON STREET & NUMBER Township road just east of, SR 26 NOT FOR PUBLICATION CITY, TOWN CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT 1/10 PRESENT USE . ' DISTRICT X PUBLIC _WORK IN PROGRESS - PRIVATE RESIDENCE - PUBLIC ACQUISITION - IN PROCESS - YES: RESTRICTED BEING CONSIDERED XYES: UNRESTRICTED OWNER OF PROPERTY - VICINITY OF Marietta LOCATION OF LEGAL DESCRIPTION REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC.

REPRESENTATION IN EXISTING SURVEYS DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS Marietta DATE LOCATION CODE UNOCCUPIED STATE 167 TITLE CLASSIFICATION ACCESSIBLE ENTERTAINMENT Washington County GOVERNMENT COUNTY NAME EDUCATIONAL SITE CATEGORY RECEIVED OWNERSHIP MILITARY HISTORIC RELIGIOUS Washington AGRICULTURE STATUS SCIENTIFIC XTRANSPORTATION DATA SHEET Hildreth Covered Bridge MUSEUM COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL XSTRUCTURE Ohio Clarence E. Miller Court House PRIVATE Five miles east of Marietta BUILDING(S) H 0505 099 DATE ENTERED _OBJECT - OTHER: PARK- S -FEDERAL STATE COUNTY LOCAL 039 BOTH Hills Covered Bridge SIATE 7- DESCRIPTION IORIGINAL SITE DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL (IF KNOWN) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE

Description of the property

The Hildreth Bridge is a 12 panel Howe truss, with a 130' 6" truss length and an base. The steel guard rails of the open wooden appraoch ramps extend several CONDITION DATE XUNALTERED EXCELLENT UNEXPOSED DETERIORATED MOVED stone abutments and piers. truss consists of wooden braces and counterbraces with iron tension rods as popular for both railroad and highway bridges. members was a great innovation in bridge-building and really marked the end CHECK ONE ing the Lt. Muskingum River in Newport Towmship section 36, five miles east of feet inside the bridge.The flooring of the approach ramps is laid crosswise white.The cut-stone abutments and piers are the original foundations. a small roofed window on each side of the bridge. The structure under consideration is a one span wooden truss covered bridge span- Marietta in Washington County, Ohio.

This fine old bridge has vertical, high- The Hildreth Bridge is in good condition.It has a metal roof, parts of which vantages of being able to tighten up the iron tension rods after a few years if of the all-wooden bridge truss.The railroads were quick to recognize the ad- 1l'.The truss has four iron tension rods on the end panels and two of these structure is 17'8#.Height of the trusses is.17' and the overhead clearence is X.GOOD - FAIR LRUINS Howe truss plan patented in 1840 by William Howe of Spencer, Mass. The Howe the bridge bègan to sag. In just a short time the Howe truss became tremendously The historical name of this bridge is the Hildreth Bridge and is built on the rods on all other panels.The portals are straight and sharply cut back at the the truss verticals.Howe's introduction of the use of iron rods as tension AREAS OF

Statement of significance

one of our most imposing roofed spans. It perches high above the river on Historical 1700-1799 1600-1699 ART BUILDER/ARCHITECT PERIOD COMMERCE RELIGION COMMUNICATIONS POLITICS/GOVERNMENT EDUCATION SIGNIFICANCE CONSERVATION ARCHEOLOGY-PREHISTORIC MILITARY The fact that there are two different building dates given for this bridge ARCHITECTURE 1900- INDUSTRY AGRICULTURE LITERATURE LAW SOCIAL/HUMANITARIAN probably comes from one Stephan Hildreth who owmed the land near the bridge X1800-1899 Inco, this fine old bridge was built in 188l, but another source says the bridge historians and covered bridge buffsas the Hildreth Bridge.The name Hildreth Lt.Muskingum R.in Washington County.We consider the Hildreth Bridge to be several contracts were let for covered bridges over the Lt.

Muskingum R.at different truss type.At one time at least eight covered bridges spanned the X.TRANSPORTATION _EXPLORATION/SETTLEMENT building skills of a now unknown Ohio bridge-builder. XENGINEERING could indicate that this might just not be the first covered bridge on this Muskingum R. today in Washington County, and each of these three spans has a magnificent cut-stone abutments and piers.The height of these piers is The Hildreth Bridge is one of three covered bridges that remain over the Lt. INVENTION _PREHISTORIC century mark.It is a fine example of the Howe truss and a tribute to the short distance from the bridge.

_THEATER _ECONOMICS _PHILOSOPHY -1400-1499 _SCULPTURE -1500-1599 early 1870's or 1881 - MUSIC According to the record books of the Southern Ohio Covered Bridge Assciation, The signa over the portals call this the Hills Bridge, but it is known to site.The Hildreths were a pioneer family in Washington County.The name could have been built as early as /87l or 1872 as county records show that necessary because of the damaging floods which can occur on the Lt.Muskingum that time.Unfortunately, further historical data on this bridge is lacking. covered bridge and two more were destroyed in a 1907 flood. Hills comes from the nearby crossroads community of that name on SR 26a site.Flooding in.the 1870is took out at least one other Lt.Muskingum R.

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

MAJOR BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES Allen, Richard So, Covered Bridges of the Northeast, Stephan Greene Press, 1957, 10 GEOGRAPHICAL DATA UTM REFERENCES VERBAL BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION 11 FORM PREPARED BY NAME / TITLE Miriam Fo Wood September 15, 1976 STREET & NUMBER 3155 Whitehead Road CITY OR TOWN 2 STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICER CERTIFICATION THE EVALUATED SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS-PROPERTY WITHIN THE STATE IS: NATIONAL - LOCAL - 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 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THIE PROPERTY IS INCLUDED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER ATTEST GPO 892-453 COUNTY CODE ORGANIZATION DATE TELEPHONE NORTHING STATE ZONE spans on either side of the portals. EASTING Ohio 614 -279-9576 Pages 17 and 18.

Spanning the Muskingum River just north of the intersection of Hill Road and Patterson Road.The nomination includes the bridge, abutments and Covered Bridges on the Byways of Ohio, Oxford Printing Coo, FOR NPS USE ONLY ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY less than one LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES As the designated State Historic Preservation Officer for the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665).I KEEPER OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER- Ohio Covered Bridge Committee 1969, page 159. Ketcham, Bryan E, Record Books of the Southern Ohio Covered Bridge Association, Inco, Vol.8. 143164880 Photos - ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIAN CONSTRUCTION.

Reviewl 3L>> REVIEW UNIT CHIEF FEB 8 National Register Write-up Send-back _ OTHER KEEPER Inventory TECHNICAL ARCHEOLOGIST Entered HAER Maps Re-submit 1978 HISTORIAN State Federal Register Entry BRANCH CHIEF Working Number7.28, 77.1575 CONTROL United States Department of the Interior National Park Service WAso No.7 A COVERED BRIDGE Of HOWE-TRÜSS IN T: 2106- 74 WILL AGREE N HISTORIAN. 9.29.77 Property LEBovct Washington 21/8 2.>.78 NPS Form 10-000-a OMB Approval No. 1024-0018 Hildreth Covered Bridge, Marietta Vicintiy, Washington County, Ohio. Hills/Hildreth Bridge builtin1878by Hocking Valley Bridge Works of Lancaster, Ohio for $13. per lineal foot. Historic name was Lafaber's Mill Wood, Historian, Southern Ohio Covered Bridge Association, August 1986. Bridge.

Page Item number Inventory-Nomination Form National Register of Historic Places National Park Service Information from research in county commissioners journal provided by Miriam United States Department of the Interior Continuation sheet SEP41986 NPS Form 10-900-g United States Department of the Interior Item number Washington County, OHIO Nomination/Type of Review Late/ Signature Additional Information Attest Inventory-Nomination Form Keeper State Name Page National Register of Historic Places Continuation sheet Hildreth CoveredBridge date entered National Park Service For NPS use only OM8 No. 1024-0018 received 3-82) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WASO Form - 177 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ('R" June 1984) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES EVALUATION/RETURN SHEET Fed. Reg.

Date: Date Due: _ nomination by person or local government - REJECT - owner objection Federal Agency: _ Lappeal - request Reviewer's comments: _ see continuation sheet Nomination returned for: _ technical corrections cited below _substantive reasons discussed below 1. Name 2. Location 3. Classification 4. Owner of Property 5. Location of Legal Description 6. Representation in Existing Surveys Has this property been determined eligible? 7. Description -unaltered -original site - moved summary paragraph resubmission Category Condition dates yes alterations/integrity Status Ownership fair ruins sample unexposed RETURN deteriorated clarity Action: boundary selection Substantive Review: Washington County Accessible Public Acquisition completeness Hildreth Covered Bridge SEP/41986 Present Use Check one Describe the present and original (if known)physical appearance NR decision Working No.

Substantive Hovlew - excellent good 78002211 8. Significance Areas of Significance-Check and justify below Statement of Significance (in one paragraph) summary paragraph relating significance to the resource relationship of integrity to significance justification of exception Other 9. Major Bibliographical References 10. Geographical Data Acreage of nominated property Quadrangle name UTM References Verbal boundary description and justification 11. Form Prepared By 12.

State Historic Preservation Officer Certification The evaluated significance of this property within the state is: State Historic Preservation Officer signature - Photographs Questions concerning this nomination may be directed to _ Phone: - GPO 918-450 Comments for any item may be continued on an attached sheet Builder/Architect Date Period context Signed completeness title national Maps state local applicable criteria Specific dates justification of areas checked clarity FEB 8 SEP 2 8 1977 northeast 1978 August 1975 South portal, west side looking Washington County, Ohio Hildreth Covered Bridge FROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER photo by Jeff Darbee 5 miles east of Marietta SEP 2 8 1977 FEB 8 PROPERTY OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER southwest 5 miles east of Marietta North portal, east side looking photo by Jeff Darbee Washington County, Ohio August 1975 Hildreth Covered Bridge 1978 SEP 2 8 1977 BELMONT, OHIO-W.

VA UNITED STATES STATE OF OHIO BELMONT QUADRANGLE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 7.5 MINUTE SERIES (TOPOGRAPHIC () State Route RECEIVED FEB8 DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum Hon. Joha H. Glenn, Jr. State Historic Preservation Officer Hon. Thomas N. Kindness Dr. Thomas H. Smith Director, The Ohio Historical Society Interstate 71 at 17th Avenue 2/22/78 880 Mott/js Location STATE Name Also Notified Perry County FEB81978 Regional Director, Midwest Region ENTRIES IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER Date Entered Butler Coumty New Reading vicinity Hon.Clarence E.Miller Bowman Mill Covered Bridge Marietta vicinity Washington County Hamilton vicinity Hildreth Covered Bridge FEB 3 Fitz Randolph-Rogers House Ohio Historic Preservation Office 1985 Velma Avenue Columbus. Ohio 43211 August 28, 1986 SINCE 1885 Carol Shul1 P.O. Box 37127 Dear Ms.

Shull: the assistance of Miriam Wood, the original form preparer, who has W. Ray Luce State Historic Preservation Officer WRL/DAS : dwm SOCIETY 614/466-1500 Enclosures HISTORICAL Department of the Interior National Register of Historic Places recently conducted new research on these structures. Enclosed are updates on twelve covered bridges currently listed Please add these continuation sheets to the appropriate files, SEP 4 1986 OHIO Sincer on the National Register.The information has been provided with 2 OTHER NAMES: 4 county code: FEB 8 city / town X STATE 5 mi.

E of Marietta off OH 26 SOURCE of NOMINATION - FEDERAL O deteriorated Ooriginal site ECO NOT INTACT -O Ogood Oreconstructed - Unknown Ounknown ZO NOT APPLICABLE -7 - No Access - RECREATION -28 "first'O - LAW - 16 - RELIGION- 22 C SETTLEMENT-29 - LITERATURE - 17 - SCIENCE- 23 - URBAN PLANNING-31) 'oldest' O - HEALTH - MILITARY - 18 D MUSIC - 19 'only' O - ART-5 - EDUCATION-10 - INVENTION - 14 - PHILOSOPHY - 20] C TRANSPORTATION - 25 23) functions 20 dates of initial construction: major alterations : 2 architectural style(s): @master builder: ®landscape arohitect/ garden designer: S interior decorator: 3 artisan: @builder/contractor: NATIONAL REGISTER WRITE-UP _date 167 Washington Marietta ASSOCIATION PH0505099 artist 10th PERSONAL: EVENTS: INSTITUTIONAL: historic events: vicinity of CURRENTLY: ARCHITECTURE-4 Hills Covered Bridge ADMINISTRATOR WHEN HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT CONDITION Hildreth Covered Bridge SAVED?YES NATIONAL REGISTER DATA SHEET Dunexcavated Dexcellent SUBSTANTIALLY INTACT- Cunexposed BNAMES give role & date Ofair GNPS REGION: 3) date of entry : IS PROPERTY A HISTORIC DISTRICT?

DyesOno AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE : @CLAIMS: explain - ENTERTAINMENT-26 CEXPLORATION -12 - AGRICULTURE -3 - CONSERVATION - 8 - ECONOMICS- 9 C INDUSTRY- 13 C SOCIAL / CULTURAL- 30 m engineer: - LANDSCAPE ARCH.- 15 LOCATION ENGINEERING-11 GROUP COMMUNICATIONS if state who prepared form? Cunaltered ARCHEOLOGY-historic-1 as it appears on federal register: ACREAGE Dfeatures: