The Mount Olive Road Covered Bridge is a covered Queenpost truss over the Middle Fork Salt Creek near Allensville in Vinton County, Ohio.
The crossing was designed by George Washington Pilcher, a leading engineer in southeastern Ohio, on land owned by the Grandstaff family 1 in 1875. 2 It was rehabilitated in 1963, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and bypassed circa 2000.
Details
- State: Ohio
- Route: Mount Olive Road
- Status: Active (Pedestrian)
- Type: Covered Queenpost Truss
- Total Length: 53 feet
- Main Span Length: 35 feet
- Spans:
- Deck Width: 13 feet
- Above Vertical Clearance: 8 feet
- Navigational Clearance:
Sources
- Owen, Lorrie K. “Mt. Olive Road Covered Bridge.” Dictionary of Ohio Historic Places, vol. 2, Somerset, St. Clair Shores, 1999, pp. 1368-69.
- “Mt. Olive Road Covered Bridge.” Ohio Historical Society, 2007.