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Spark's Ford, Licking County

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Inventory Number: OH/35-45-53x
County: Licking County
Township: Washington
Town/Village: Saint Louisville
Bridge Name: Spark's Ford
Crosses: North Fork Licking River
Truss type: Burr
Spans: 2
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When Lost: c1920s
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Latitude: N40 10.74
Longitude: W082 25.21
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Directions: ¼ mile north of Saint Louisville on OH13.

Washington, Licking County, OH
Todd Clark Collection

Comments:
10-panel truss. Images of the bridge late in its life show that it had been refurbished by the Louis Stock Bowers Company out of Kentucky. The bridge had a green and white color scheme on board and batten siding (white on boards and green on battens) and also included a signature design element identified by Walter Laughlin as a Bower Box, a lower chord enclosure at the bridge entrance (as opposed to larger shelter panels at the entrance of the bridge). The bridge had been condemned in 1909 and again in 1913. A replacement bridge built alongside the covered bridge was constructed in 1921 by Stout and Stout of Stoutsville. Both bridges appeared in the October 1926 issue of Highway Topics, the magazine of the Ohio Engineering Society, so the covered bridge may have still survived at the time.

Sources:
Clark, Todd. Information received by email, June 2010
Wood, Miriam. Ohio Covered Bridge Index, Licking County

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