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Wendling, Lane County

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Inventory Number: OR/37-20-36
County: Lane County
Township: Marcola
Town/Village: Marcola
Bridge Name: Wendling
Crosses: Mill Creek
Truss type: Howe
Spans: 1
Length: 60'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1938
Builder: A.C. Striker, Lane County
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N44 11.479
Longitude: W122 47.929
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 3.5 miles northeast of Marcola on Wendling Rd. (CR1975)

Wendling Bridge, Marcola, Lane County, OR Built 1938
Oregon Department of Transportation Photo

Wendling Bridge, Marcola, Lane County, OR Built 1938
Bill Caswell Photo, June 2006

Wendling Bridge, Marcola, Lane County, OR Built 1938
Bill Caswell Photo, January 31, 2017

Comments:
Cost $1750. T16S R1W S10. The bridge and town of the same name were named after George Wendling, director of the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, who established a post office here in the 1890s. The bridge cost $2,241 to construct in 1938. Like many others in the county, the chords are a single timber.

Sources:
Cockrell, Bill & Nick. Roofs Over Rivers - the New Guide to Oregon's Covered Bridges, 1989, page 38
Cockrell, Nick & Bill. Roofs Over Rivers - A Guide to Oregon's Covered Bridges, 1978, page 51
Oregon Department of Transportation.
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 93

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