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Mosby
Creek (Layng) Covered Bridge
County:
Lane
Stream: Mosby Creek
Latitude:
43°46'41.7"N
Longitude: 123°00'17.2"W
Truss
Type: Howe
Bridge Length (ft): 90
Year Built: 1920
World Guide Number: 37-20-27
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Mosby
Creek (Layng) Covered Bridge
Location:
Travel one mile east of Cottage Grove on Row River Road. Follow the sign
to Mosby Creek Road by turning right, and crossing the railroad track.
Turn left on Mosby Creek Road and travel southeast two miles to the bridge.
Alternately, from Currin Bridge continue southwest on Layng Road to Mile
Point 0.2 to Mosby Creek Bridge.
Background:
The Mosby Creek Bridge is Lane County’s oldest covered bridge, having
been built in 1920 at a cost of $4,125 by Walter and Miller Sorenson.
Spliced chords
and steel rod cross-braces on the upper chords of the bridge are modifications
of the basic Howe truss design.
The span
was capped with a corrugated metal roof. During the summer of 2002, the
roof was replaced with synthetic roofing material, and other repairs were
made at the same time.
The Mosby
Creek Bridge was one of the bridges which could be seen from the Oregon,
Pacific and Eastern steam excursion train, The Goose, prior to the sale
of the locomotive to Yreka, California in 1987.
Design elements
include semi-circular portal arches, ribbon openings at the roofline,
and board-and-batten siding.
Mosby Creek
was named for David Mosby, a pioneer of 1853 who staked claim to 1,600
acres east of the present city of Cottage Grove.
Source:
"Roofs Over Rivers" by Bill and Nick Cockrell
Information presented in cooperation with the Covered Bridge Society of
Oregon
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