I visited this bridge 15-20 years ago. At that time, there was a skeletal old two-story house on the Knowlton side, which I took to be an original Knowlton homestead. Too bad it wasn’t preserved as part of the history of the site.
I took a special interest in the bridge since my grandmother was a Cline and her mother was a Knowlton. The bridge connected the Knowlton settlement to the original Cline settlement across the Little Muskingum at Jericho. There were many Cline-Knowlton marriages facilitated by this bridge.
When I was there, the bridge approach on the Jericho side was gone; I hope the rebuild will restore that so people can walk across to the historic settlement and graveyard in Jericho, where the original Cline settlers are buried.
There was a photo at the site showing some Cline and Knowlton men maintaining the bridge; did they also build it? I’ve looked for information on that but found nothing.
I visited this bridge 15-20 years ago. At that time, there was a skeletal old two-story house on the Knowlton side, which I took to be an original Knowlton homestead. Too bad it wasn’t preserved as part of the history of the site.
I took a special interest in the bridge since my grandmother was a Cline and her mother was a Knowlton. The bridge connected the Knowlton settlement to the original Cline settlement across the Little Muskingum at Jericho. There were many Cline-Knowlton marriages facilitated by this bridge.
When I was there, the bridge approach on the Jericho side was gone; I hope the rebuild will restore that so people can walk across to the historic settlement and graveyard in Jericho, where the original Cline settlers are buried.
There was a photo at the site showing some Cline and Knowlton men maintaining the bridge; did they also build it? I’ve looked for information on that but found nothing.
Betsy