Logan Mills Covered Bridge

About

Logan Mills Covered Bridge carries Logan Mills Road over Fishing Creek in Sugar Valley, southwest of Loganton in Logan Township, Clinton County. It is a queenpost bridge built in 1874. Dale Travis and Gribblenation give its length as 63 feet; the National Register listing gives 55 feet. It is the only covered bridge left in Clinton County, and it carries vehicles.

History

The bridge dates to 1874, though Gribblenation notes some evidence that it may date to 1847. It is named for the Logan Mills gristmill beside it, which Colonel Anthony Kleckner built in 1840. The Ilgen family bought the mill after Kleckner died in 1860 and ran it until the mid-1950s; the mill building still stands. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 6, 1979. It was renovated in 2002 at a cost of $986,000 and rededicated in 2003.

Design

A queenpost truss uses two vertical posts joined by a horizontal beam, with diagonal braces to the ends. Here the truss is shallow, reaching only about halfway up the sides. The bridge is 12 feet wide.

Visiting

The bridge is on Logan Mills Road about 0.4 mile south of Route 880, west of Loganton.

Sources: Logan Mills Covered Bridge (Wikipedia), Logan Mills Covered Bridge (Gribblenation, 2021), Logan Mill (Dale J. Travis)

Photo: Ruhrfisch, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.