Ashland Covered Bridge

Ashland Bridge
Location South of Ashland over Red Clay Creek, Ashland, Delaware
Coordinates 39°47′54″N 75°39′28″W / 39.798275°N 75.657883°W / 39.798275; -75.657883Coordinates: 39°47′54″N 75°39′28″W / 39.798275°N 75.657883°W / 39.798275; -75.657883
Built c. 1860
Architectural style Covered Bridge
NRHP Reference # 73000506[1]
Added to NRHP March 20, 1973

Ashland Covered Bridge, also known as Ashland Bridge or Barley Mill Road Covered Bridge, is a covered bridge over Red Clay Creek on Barley Mill Road (near the junction of Brackenville Road) in Ashland in New Castle County, Delaware.

It is a Town lattice truss bridge following a design of Ithiel Town.[2]

It was built about 1860. It is almost identical to the Wooddale Bridge.[1][3]

Exterior view

In 1965, when it was documented in the Historic American Engineering Record survey, it was one of the last three surviving covered bridges in the state of Delaware.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Staff (2009-03-13). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Bassett, William S. (June 1965). "Barley Mill Road Covered Bridge" (PDF). Historic American Buildings Survey. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved February 15, 2014.
  3. ↑ Gravdon Wood and Rosemary Troy (June 1972). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ashland Bridge" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved 2013-03-16. Accompanying photo.

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