Ashland Covered Bridge

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.

Ashland Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Bridge in 1982
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Location	South of Ashland over Red Clay Creek, Ashland, Delaware
Coordinates	39.798275°N 75.657883°W / 39.798275; -75.657883
Built	c. 1860
Architectural style	Covered bridge
NRHP reference No.	73000506[1]
Added to NRHP	March 20, 1973

Style

It is a Town lattice truss bridge following a design of Ithiel Town,[2] built about 1860. It is almost identical to the Wooddale Bridge.[1][3]

History

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

•  Transport portal
•  Engineering portal

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
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". National Park Service. Retrieved 2013-03-16. Accompanying photo.

External links

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. DE-162, "Ashland Covered Bridge, Red Clay Creek-Barley Mill Road, Ashland, New Castle County, DE", 3 photos, 4 data pages

Media related to Ashland Covered Bridge at Wikimedia Commons

Interior lattice work