Built in 1867. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. A historic map-sheet match is not published yet. The record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
“Windsor Mills Bridge, also known as Wiswell Road Bridge or Warner Hollow Road Bridge, is a covered bridge that carries Covered Bridge Lane, formerly Wiswell Road, across Phelps Creek in Windsor Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States. The bridge, one of currently 17 drivable bridges in the county, is a single-span Town truss design.”
Wikipedia article Windsor Mills Covered Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
one of 36 National Register listings in Ashtabula County · listed in 1973 · category: Structure · built in 1867 · one of 1 National Historic Landmarks in Ashtabula County.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
This property stands in Windsor Township. History of Ashtabula County Ohio, published 1924 gives that township a chapter of its own.
The chapter covers organized in 1811, early settlers, first marriage, first death, religious interest, rev. john badger.
Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.
Read the whole chapter on Windsor Township - 32,534 words on its settlement, mills, schools and churches.
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 777 specimens collected within 10 miles of Wiswell Road Covered Bridge between 1890 and 1974: 741 Animalia, 28 Fungi, 8 Plantae. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by A.E. Daugherty, Acker, G. G. & Class, Athearn, Herbert D. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.
| Image | Species | Year | Collected by | Where, as recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Bacidia rubella (Hoffm.) A.Massal. | 1891 | Ernst E. Bogue | |
 | Anaptychia aquila (Ach.) A.Massal. | 1895 | Ernst E. Bogue | |
 | Cetraria lacunosa Ach. | 1895 | Ernst E. Bogue | |
 | Cardamine douglassii Britton | 1890 | E. E. Bogue | Orwell. |
 | Conopholis americana (L.) Wallr. | 1890 | E. E. Bogue | Orwell. |
 | Geum rivale L. | 1890 | E. E. Bogue | Orwell. |
 | Sceptridium dissectum (Spreng.) Lyon | 1890 | E. E. Bogue | Orwell |
 | Bacidia luteola (Ach.) Mudd | 1891 | E. E. Bogue | |
 | Cladonia pyxidata (L.) Hoffm. | 1891 | Bogue, E.E. | Orwell; 41.535055 -80.868144 |
 | Lecanora caesiorubella subsp. caesiorubella | 1891 | E. E. Bogue | Orwell |
 | Physcia stellaris (L.) Nyl. | 1891 | Bogue, E. E. | Orwell |
| Anzia colpodes (Ach.) Stizenb. | 1892 | E. E. Bogue | Orwell |
All 777 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
When this property was proposed for the National Register, someone wrote the case for it: what the building is, and why it matters. That document is a federal record in the public domain. It is quoted below word for word, never summarised. The text was read off the scanned case file by machine, so the occasional stray character is the recogniser's and the 1970s typewriter's.
and 40.3'. The overall length is 120-1/2'; clearance 10'6" and roadway more than 30 feet above Phelps Creek Gorge on the original cut stone 1972 piers.There are two piers and two abutments of stone blocks (2'x 2' x4')quaried from the wall of the gorge nearby.The chisel marks may stil1 be seen from the road above.There are three spans of 33',42.3'
The first settlers to the township of Windsor arrived in June 1799 and village of Windsor Mills was established. It remained a recognized village until 1913 when the U.S. Post Office was closed. The Phelps Creek Gorge was found to be the best water power site in the township. There first developed a mill, Skinners Mill, on the miles out of the way, a covered bridge was contracted for and built north of the bridge is the Millbank Inn, used over the years as a bridge allowed this and other buildings to become a vital center of The bridge nestles among hardwoods and hemlocks, wild flowere and ferns, and creates a beautiful picture for artists, photographers, DEC 1 1972 standing.
Commerce Architecture Conservation Communications Education Military Engineering REGISTER NATIONAL Aboriginal Theater Literature losophy itarian Prehistoric Landscape Music Pre-Columbian Agriculture hotel, post office, general store, skating rink, and dance hall. The Social/Human- bank of the gorge. A dam, which still stands, was constructed of Sculpture aroung September 1867. The Wiswell Road Bridge, still is use today, Invention RECEIVED Industry Urban Planning linked the southern area to Stonevillea quarrying center.To the same condition as when it was built.The mill itself is no longer nature lovers and all who visit it. life in the village of Windsor Mills.
Other (Specify) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Since most other buildings were north of Phelps Creek Gorge, and the Art sandstone blocks.It was laid up without mortar and remains in the only existing way to reach them was by a southeasterly road running and March 1800. However, it was not until 181l that the township
The whole case file for this property - 1,539 words, 10 pages, reproduced complete.
Quoted from the National Register nomination for reference 73001386, 10 pages, held by the National Archives in Record Group 79. See the catalogue record.
Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Windsor Mills Christ Church Episcopal | 0.2 miles | 1975 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 73001386 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Ashtabula County | All 36 listed properties in this county. |
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