Ackly Covered Bridge

WGN PA-63-??

 

Washington County, PA - Seven miles from William McGuffey's birthplace, near West Finley Pennsylvania, one such bridge spanned Wheeling Creek. It was built in 1832 by Daniel and Joshua Ackley, from whose land the great oak timbers came. 105 years later, in the late fall of 1937, it was a rotting, deteriorating vestige of the past, and was scheduled to be torn down. Ackley's granddaughter, Mrs. Harleigh Carroll, acquired the bridge and gave it to Mr. Ford. By summer of 1938, it proudly stood over a man-made water way inside of Greenfield Village.

For great photos and the remarkable story of the Ackly Bridge, go to: http://gfv1929.blogspot.com/2008/11/ackley-covered-bridge.html.