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Mill
Creek (Wendling) Covered Bridge
County:
Lane
Stream: Mill Creek
Latitude:
44°11'28.0"N
Longitude: 122°47'55.7"W
Truss
Type: Howe
Bridge Length (ft): 60
Year Built: 1938
World Guide Number: 37-20-36
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Mill
Creek (Wendling) Covered Bridge
Location:
From Springfield, follow 14th Street in Springfield and travel northeast
(as it becomes Marcola Road) to Marcola. At Marcola, turn right (east
onto Wendling Road and follow the road to the bridge. Alternately, from
Earnest Bridge, follow Paschelke Road about 1.3 miles to Wendling Road.
Turn east on Wendling Road to Mile Point 3.5.
Background:
In the 1890s, George Wendling, director of Booth-Kelly Lumber Company,
established a post office in the small town which bears his name.
The Wendling
Bridge, built just prior to World War II, appears to be hidden on the
winding road northeast of Marcola.
Like the
nearby Earnest Bridge, the Wendling Bridge showed faded, peeling circus
posters pasted on its walls between truss members until time, moisture
and visitors removed them.
Lane County
spent only $2,241 to build the bridge in 1938. Like many other short span
bridges in the county, it used single piece chords for the Howe truss.
Source:
"Roofs Over Rivers" by Bill and Nick Cockrell
Information presented in cooperation with the Covered Bridge Society of
Oregon
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