4 mi. SW of Wilkesville over Raccoon Creek, Wilkesville, Ohio. County/parish: Vinton.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 11, 1973. NRIS 73001545.
1 contributing structure.
The Ponn Humpback Covered Bridge was a historic covered bridge in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio. Located near the village of Wilkesville in Vinton County, it bore a name derived from its unusual shape: the bridge was arched in the middle, rather than being flat like a typical covered bridge. Declared a historic site in the 1970s, the bridge had a history closely tied to arson — it was constructed to replace a bridge that had been burned intentionally, and it met its end at the hands of an arsonist.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991806