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Warner Hollow or Windsor Mills or Wiswell Road, Ashtabula County

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Inventory Number: OH/35-04-25
County: Ashtabula County
Township: Windsor
Town/Village: Windsor Mills
Bridge Name: Warner Hollow or Windsor Mills or Wiswell Road
Crosses: Phelps Creek
Truss type: Town
Spans: 3
Length: 120'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1867
Builder:
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N41 31.993
Longitude: W080 57.838
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Directions: 1.5 miles west of jct OH534 on US322, then 0.1 miles left on Warner Hollow Rd. (TR357) Just southwest of Windsor Mills.

Warner Hollow Bridge, Windsor, Ashtabula County, OH Built 1867
G. Thomas Toy Photo, May 29, 1997, NSPCB Archives

Warner Hollow Bridge, Windsor, Ashtabula County, OH Built 1867
Larry Cunningham Photo

Warner Hollow Bridge, Windsor, Ashtabula County, OH Built 1867
© Lisa Plamondon

Warner Hollow Bridge, Windsor, Ashtabula County, OH Built 1867
Larry Cunningham Photo

Warner Hollow Bridge, Windsor, Ashtabula County, OH Built 1867
H. M. MacKenzie Photo, October 12, 1952, NSPCB Archives

Warner Hollow Bridge, Windsor, Ashtabula County, OH Built 1867
H. M. MacKenzie Photo, March 10, 1951, NSPCB Archives

Comments:
The bridge sits atop cut stone abutments, one made of sandstone quarried nearby, and the other made of creek stone. This bridge was closed to all but pedestrian traffic when Wiswell Road was rerouted west of the creek in 1971. In the 1980s, the bridge was completely closed due to safety reasons. It underwent extensive renovation from 2002 to 2004. The $250,000 project was completed in May 2004 and the road reopened as Covered Bridge Lane. County highway employees did much of the work. Glue-laminated girders were added to the existing lattice truss to carry the dead load of the bridge, as well as live loads. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973.

Sources:
Wood, Miriam. Ohio Covered Bridge Index, Ashtabula County
Wood, Miriam F. & Simmons, David A.. Covered Bridges: Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, 2007, pages 33, 61
Feather, Carl E.. The Covered Bridges of Ashtabula County, Ohio, 2014, Pages 105-106
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 64

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