The Teegarden-Centennial Covered Bridge, constructed primarily of white oak in a Multiple King Post design spanning 67 feet, stands at its original location on Eagleton Road just off Teegarden Road over the Middle Fork of Little Beaver Creek in Eagleton's Glen Park. Built nearly 100 years after the birth of the nation, its construction contract was awarded to Jeremiah C. Mountz in June 1875, with stone abutment work awarded to David Reese and painting of the original structure to George W. Akin in 1876. It remained in use until 1992, when a new concrete structure bypassed it. Members of Highland Christian Church came here for baptism by immersion. Columbiana County once had more than 250 covered bridges, including at least 16 railroad covered bridges, and this bridge is one of only five still remaining. Around this site, the small village of Teegarden grew up in the early 1800s after being founded by Prussian immigrants and named for the William Teegarden family. Levi Blackledge settled there and built a water-powered gristmill in 1804 and a water-powered sawmill nearby in 1805. The gristmill, which ground flour for many local farmers, was replaced in 1816 by a frame structure that stood until 1904. A post office was established in 1868, with Uriah Teegarden as the first postmaster. The area was also used for coal mining through the deep mines of the B.F. Lewis Coal and Iron Company, and extensive deposits of kidney ore were mined there and shipped on the Erie Railroad, now the Greenway Bike Trail, to the Cherry Valley and Grafton Furnaces at Leetonia and the Rebecca Furnace at McKinley Crossing near Lisbon.
