Bridge # 14-67-01 Cornstalk Covered Bridge is a single-span Burr Arch Truss bridge over Cornstalk Creek. The Cornstalk Bridge was built by Joseph A. Britton in 1917 and gets its name from the creek it crosses. A single-span bridge, it’s 82 feet long, 16 feet wide, 14 feet high, with an eight-foot overhang at each end, shingle roof and concrete abutments. Britton also constructed Putnam County’s Rolling Stone and Pine Bluff bridges. Both the bridge and creek are named for Peter Cornstalk, Chief of the Eel River Tribe of Native Americans who once inhabited the area.
Putnam County - Pine Bluff Covered Bridge - 14-67-03 Pine Bluff Covered Bridge is a Howe Truss structure over Big Walnut Creek. Pine Bluff Bridge’s double span reaches a length of 211 feet, or 233 feet counting an 11-foot overhang at each end. The portal is 16 feet wide by 13.5 feet high. The roadbed is wood, the roof is tin and the abutments are concrete. The single-lane roadbed is open to traffic.
Bridge # 14-67-04 Built in 1915 by J.A. Britton, this Burr arch bridge crosses Big Walnut Creek. The Rolling Stone Covered Bridge is 103 feet long, plus a 10 feet overhang at each end. The single-span bridge is 16 feet wide and 13 feet high, with concrete abutments and a sheet metal roof. The bridge takes its name from a large boulder in the Creek which was rolled around by the action of the water. For protection of the bridge, the boulder has long since been removed.
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