The OES visited the remnants of Loucks Bridge on January 28, 2006. Loucks Bridge was built sometime between 1867 and 1871 southeast of Canal Winchester over Little Walnut Creek on State Route 207, also known as Diley Road. With a stone foundation and steel roof, Loucks Bridge was of Burr Truss design and built by Jacob Brandt, who was responsible for building several other Fairfield County covered bridges. Loucks Bridge was placed on the National Register of Historical Places in 1976 and was removed in 1985.
According to newspaper articles from 1987,
Loucks Bridge was dismantled and sold to a Texas foundation in 1983 to be
reconstructed as part of a historic park. The project was abandoned in 1986
after trustees voted to scale down the park's development due to cost concerns.
Officials in Fairfield County requested Loucks Bridge be returned to Ohio since
it was not going to be rebuilt and trustees in Texas said they'd be happy to
return it. However, a third party in California had filed a lawsuit that claimed
the bridge was among other items the Texas trustees agreed to sell him. We
couldn't find any information on the outcome of this dispute. The last known
location of the bridge's timbers was at a former oil well site off FM 762 near
Richmond, Texas north of the George Ranch Historical Park. If you have any more information or photos of Loucks Bridge, please
email .
| Location Information: Dismantled |
| The Loucks Bridge was located at the end of Diley Road near Canal Winchester; Fairfield County. |
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