Court-appointed bridge viewers met here on September 25, 1867, and determined that a bridge was indispensably necessary. Well-known bridge builder Elias McMellen built this bridge in 1873 for $969 near the Landis Mill. The three-story stone mill on the west side of this creek was built around 1813. John H. L. Landis (1795-1864) purchased the adjacent mill in 1834, and it became known as the Pike Mill. This mill was later known as the Oreville grist and saw mill. In 1931, the executors of John L. Landis (1834-1911) sold the mill property, including the old stone grist mill, which had been in the Landis family for nearly a century. The Landis Mill bridge is the shortest covered bridge still in use and the only one with king post truss construction.