Covered Bridge
While visiting Greg in Oxford, Ohio this weekend, we had the priveledge of seeing a historic site. We drove to see the Black Pugh covered Bridge. It was restored a few years ago. It was very nice and in a location that hopefully, vandals won’t damage it like they did the one in our county. We climbed down the embankment to the creek below. It was so pretty. Lynn wished he had his fly rod with him.
I found the following information on an Internet website.
One of the few remaining covered bridges in southwestern Ohio and the only one in Butler County on its original site, this bridge was built in 1868-1869 to give access to a saw and grist mill owned by James B. Pugh on Four Mile (Tallawanda) Creek. The wooden frame three-story mill had a 16-foot overshot water wheel to power it. Pugh’s Mill ceased operation after two decades. The name of the span gradually changed to Black Bridge, likely because there was a white covered bridge downstream near present State Route 73. The Oxford Museum Association assumed stewardship of the Black Bridge in 1976 as part of the American Bicentennial celebration. Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, it was restored and rededicated in 2000.
