Christman Covered Bridge

	Christman Covered Bridge
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Nearest city	Eaton, Ohio
Coordinates	39°46′13″N 84°39′20″W / 39.77028°N 84.65556°W
Area	Less than 1 acre (0.40 ha)
Built	1895
Built by	Everett S. Sherman
Architectural style	One-span Childs truss
NRHP reference No.	76001516
Added to NRHP	October 22, 1976

The Christman Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge that carries Eaton-New Hope Road over Seven Mile Creek in Washington Township, Preble County, Ohio, United States, northwest of the city of Eaton. It was built in 1895 by Everett S. Sherman, who built at least 20 covered bridges in Preble County.^[2]^[3]^[4] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[1]

The Christman Bridge was built at a total cost of approximately $4,250: $2,452 for stone from the Eaton Stone Company, $1,301 for Sherman, and $499 for masonry work by Harry C. Foster. Rehabilitation work undertaken from 2007 to 2008 cost $331,093.75.^[2]

Christman Covered Bridge was the penultimate bridge built by Sherman; only the Warnke Covered Bridge was built later. It was named for a Solomon Christman who owned the land around the bridge and operated a sawmill downstream.^[3]

Trace remnants of the mill are visible near the road 200 yards (180 m) west of the bridge. As of 2016^[update], the bridge is open to traffic.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b Preble County Engineer's Office. "Christman Covered Bridge". Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2012-09-29.
^ ^a ^b Lorrie K. Owen, ed. (1999). Ohio Historic Places Dictionary, Volume 2. Somerset Publishers. p. 1175. ISBN 187859270X.
^ "Preble Society Offering Covered Bridge Coverlet". Dayton Daily News. June 8, 1994.
^ Simmons, J. Stephen (December 7, 2016). "Bridges of Preble County: Christman". Register-Herald. Eaton, Ohio. Retrieved 2024-09-05.

External links

Media related to Christman Covered Bridge at Wikimedia Commons

[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[PCE-2] Preble County Engineer's Office. "Christman Covered Bridge". Archived from the original on 2014-08-12. Retrieved 2012-09-29.

[OHPD-3] Lorrie K. Owen, ed. (1999). Ohio Historic Places Dictionary, Volume 2. Somerset Publishers. p. 1175. ISBN 187859270X.

[4] "Preble Society Offering Covered Bridge Coverlet". Dayton Daily News. June 8, 1994.

[5] Simmons, J. Stephen (December 7, 2016). "Bridges of Preble County: Christman". Register-Herald. Eaton, Ohio. Retrieved 2024-09-05.

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