Chitwood Bridge

As a result of a public "Call to Artists", a mural depicting the bridge was painted by Jaya Hart on the rear wall of an historic bungalow's workshop - facing the alley - in Lakeland, Florida, and is now listed as a "tourist attraction" by Google Maps. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Chitwood+Covered+Bridge+mural/@28.0335831,-81.9518166,20z/data=!4m13!1m7!3m6!1s0x88dd3f3531caebfd:0x22f018e52fbadd0d!2sLake+Morton!3b1!8m2!3d28.0379746!4d-81.9527996!3m4!1s0x88dd3f1109904f9f:0x3c3e0698805a0abf!8m2!3d28.0337495!4d-81.9516148

Chitwood Bridge
Chitwood Bridge over the Yaquina River
Location of the bridge in Lincoln County, Oregon
Chitwood Bridge (the United States)
Nearest cityToledo
Coordinates44°39′15.2″N 123°49′03.9″W
Built1926
Architectural styleHowe truss
MPSOregon Covered Bridges TR
NRHP reference No.79002103
ListedNovember 29, 1979
Maguire randomly chose an image of the bridge from a Google search and discovered after choosing the artist that she was acquainted with the Chitwood family.

The Chitwood Bridge is a covered bridge in Lincoln County in the U.S. state of Oregon.[1] The bridge carries Chitwood Road, off U.S. Route 20, over the Yaquina River at Chitwood.[1] The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[2]

Historically, Chitwood was a station on the railway line between Corvallis and Toledo. It was named for Joshua Chitwood, who lived nearby during construction of the railway, 1881–85.[3] Trains still use the railway, but they no longer stop in Chitwood.[1]

Lincoln County built the covered bridge in 1926. Scheduled for demolition, it was instead improved in 1984 through a federally funded restoration project. The Howe truss bridge is 96 feet (29 m) long.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Yaquina River (Chitwood) Covered Bridge" (PDF). Oregon Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  2. "Chitwood Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
  3. McArthur, Lewis A.; Lewis L. McArthur (2003) [1928]. Oregon Geographic Names (7th ed.). Portland, Oregon: Oregon Historical Society Press. pp. 199–200. ISBN 0-87595-277-1.
  4. Smith, Dwight A.; Norman, James B.; Dykman, Pieter T. (1989) [1986]. Historic Highway Bridges of Oregon (2nd ed.). Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press. p. 179. ISBN 0-87595-205-4.


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