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Photographer: William Fischer, Jr.
Taken: October 26, 2008
Caption: Johnson's Mill/Salt Creek Covered Bridge - west end of bridge
Additional Description: Residents near Johnson's Mill on Big Salt Creek petitioned the Muskingum County Commissioners in June 1875 for a bridge. A year later, they agreed to pay Jesse Romine $445 for stone abutments and Thomas Fisher $646 for an uncovered 80' Warren truss superstructure, a design now uncommon among the state's wooden bridges. By November 1876 the bridge was complete. Rafters and a wooden shake roof were added in 1879. In 1953 the covered bridge was bypassed and became a private storage shed. The bridge and 2/3 acre were purchased for preservation in 1960 by the Southern Ohio Covered Bridge Association, now known as the Ohio Historic Bridge Association.
Submitted: November 6, 2008, by William Fischer, Jr. of Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Database Locator Identification Number: p42630
File Size: 0.215 Megabytes

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