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Hern's Mill, Greenbrier County

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Inventory Number: WV/48-13-01
County: Greenbrier County
Township:
Town/Village: Lewisburg
Bridge Name: Hern's Mill
Crosses: Milligan's Creek
Truss type: Queen
Spans: 1
Length: 54'
Roadway Width:
Built: 1884 or 1879
Builder: H. Handley & J.W. Johnston
When Lost: standing
Cause:
Latitude: N37 49.953
Longitude: W080 30.287
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Topographic map of the area
Directions: 3.3 miles northwest of jct US219 on US60, then 0.2 miles left on Bungers Mill Rd. (CR60/11) and 0.9 miles left on CR40 (Hern's Mill Rd.).

Hern's Mill Bridge, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, WV Built 1884 or 1879
Bob Sheldon Photo, November 7, 2009

Hern's Mill Bridge, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, WV Built 1884 or 1879
Bill Caswell Photo, July 27, 2008

Hern's Mill Bridge, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, WV Built 1884 or 1879
Richard E. Roy Collection

Hern's Mill Bridge, Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, WV Built 1884 or 1879
G. Thomas Toy Photo, 1990's, NSPCB Archives

Comments:
Myrtle Auvil's "Covered Bridges of West Virginia" listed the construction date as 1879. According to the West Virginia Department of Transportation, the bridge was built in 1884, by order of the county court, at a cost of $800. On February 14, 1923, the west abutment collapsed. It was replaced with a new abutment on June 23, 1923. In 1940 it was replaced with a concrete structure. The bridge received extensive repairs in 1962. A $543,932 restoration of the Herns Mill Covered Bridge, completed in 2000 by Grandview Construction, Inc. of Beckley, included installation of steel beams to support the timber roadway in addition to replacement of timber roof trusses, the metal roof and wooden exterior siding.

Sources:
Auvil, Myrtle. Covered Bridges of West Virginia Past & Present, 1973, page 58
http://www.transportation.wv.gov/highways/bridge_facts/covered-bridges/Pages/HernsMill.aspx
National Society For the Preservation of Covered Bridges. Covered Bridge Topics, Volume XXXIV, No. 3, Summer 1976, page 11
Wood, Miriam F. & Simmons, David A.. Covered Bridges: Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, 2007, pages 258-259, 276
National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. World Guide to Covered Bridges, 2021, page 158

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