Chitwood Bridge

United States historic place


Chitwood Bridge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Chitwood Bridge over the Yaquina River
44°39′15.2″N 123°49′03.9″W / 44.654222°N 123.817750°W / 44.654222; -123.817750
Built	1926
Architectural style	Howe truss
MPS	Oregon Covered Bridges TR
NRHP reference No.	79002103
Listed	November 29, 1979

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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Yaquina River (Chitwood) Covered Bridge" (PDF). Oregon Department of Transportation. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
^ "Chitwood Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved January 15, 2016.
^ 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.
^ 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.