Blackburn / Wesner Bridge

This covered bridge once spanned Brannon's Fork near Young Hickory in Muskingum County. The bridge was dismantled in the '60s because the surrounding land was to be strip-mined. Arthur Wesner purchased it in 1967 and reassembled it on his land along Big Run Creek in Franklin Township. He donated it to Metro Parks in 1998. The 53-foot-long bridge was restored and reassembled by the Parks' Construction Crew. Originally known as the Blackburn Bridge, it cost $6.75 per foot to build in 1895. Ohio had more than 3,000 covered bridges in the 1880s and early 1900s.

Ohio · United States