01-Gann-to-TWVT
near Greer, Ohio (United States)
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Itinerary description
Steward: @625SXC
Distance: 141 miles
Notes: In v19 the section between Bergholz and Pravo on Twp Rd 53 was not passable due to a bridge closure - in v20 added bypass around Pravo to reflect bridge out on main route, Added Supermart in Burgholz to list of convenience stores
Waypoints
01-BP - E. Liverpool
01-Marathon - New Philly
01-Michael's Restaurant
01-Pravo bypass end
01-Pravo bypass start
01-Supermart
03-BP Station
03-Closed - Not passable unless you float
13172 Ferncliff Rd Adamsville, OH 43802 Locals have been going around the barricade but use your own judgment
03-Newcastle Farmhaus
32381 US-36, Walhonding, OH 43843
03-Tumbleweed Restaurant
03-Uncorked + Warehouse Restaurants
04-Adams/San Toy Bridge
This bridge was built in 1875 on land owned by Jacob W. Adams to cross a small creek in Morgan County, Ohio. Around the turn of the century, the coal mining boomtown of San Toy sprang up just to the north, upstream. The bridge is known both as the Adams Bridge and the San Toy bridge, and the stream it spans took the name San Toy Creek. The Sunday Creek Coal Company closed the San Toy mines in the 1920s, and by 1931, the town had voted itself out of existence. The bridge, which saw the boomtown come and go, still stands into the 21st century. Although closed now to vehicular traffic, the bridge bears signs declaring a 3 Ton weight limit. Pedestrian crossing is apparently permitted. The Adams-San Toy covered bridge is 58 feet long and is a multiple kingpost truss type. The bridge was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in February 1999 as structure #99000093. It is designated #35-58-38 in the World Guide to Covered Bridges.
04-Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge
The Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge is a covered multiple Kingpost through truss over Wolf Creek in Morgan County, Ohio. The Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge was constructed in 1872 adjacent to the now-demolished Barkhurst Mill. It was later strengthened with the addition of temporary steel bents but later closed to automobile traffic due to the deterioration of truss members. It remained open to hikers traveling the Buckeye Trail and the North Country National Scenic Trail. In 2011, the county received a National Covered Bridge Preservation Program grant for $406,240 towards the restoration of the Barkhurst Mill Covered Bridge. 1 Restoration of the bridge began in September 2013 and was finished in July 2014.
04-Big Muskie Bucket
The Big Muskie was a model 4250-W dragline and was the only one ever built by the Bucyrus-Erie. With a 220-cubic-yard (170 m3) bucket, it was the largest single-bucket digging machine ever created and one of the world's largest mobile earth-moving machines alongside the Ohio-based Marion 6360 stripping shovel called The Captain and the German bucket wheel excavators of the Bagger 288 and Bagger 293 family. The bucket alone could hold two Greyhound buses side by side. It took over 200,000 man hours to construct over a period of about two years and cost $25 million in 1969, the equivalent of $174 million today adjusted for inflatio
04-Blue Rock Fire Tower
The Blue Rock fire tower was constructed in 1937. It is the last remaining 100 foot fire tower in the state of Ohio, and the public may climb it. It is an Aermotor tower with a 7 x 7 metal cab. Aermotor is a company that has been building windmills since 1888, then they diversified to include the design and production of the most of the nation’s forest observation towers starting in 1926. Visit the Blue Rock State Forest and climb the tower – the view is breathtaking.
04-Challenge - Run Stream
04-Dunbar Piers
The Dunbar Piers were 84' high. "Built more than 150 years ago during the Civil War, it took two years for German and Irish immigrants to construct the four piers and arched railroad bridge abutments from stone quarried at the site. 'No mortar was used, and each stone weighed a ton-and-a-half to two tons. And it’s amazing that they could cut some of the stones thin enough to construct the arches,' said Eldon Young, local historian of the Marietta and Cincinnati Railroad....The last train crossed the piers in 1916, Young said, although other portions of the MC&C Railroad continued in operation in the Vincent and Cutler areas through 1924."
04-Go-Go Burrito
04-Helmick Covered Bridge
The Helmick Mill Covered Bridge, in Deerfield Township, Morgan County, Ohio, near Malta, Ohio, was built in 1867 by Samuel Price who was paid $872. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. . At this site in 1880, Joseph "Joe" Helmick owned a flouring mill and a saw mill on the falls where the flint rock outcrops. The flouring mill was on the south side and the saw mill on the north side, according to Aler's Reminiscences of Deerfield Township
04-Jeffrey Point Birding Station
7374 Big Muskie Dr Chandlersville, OH, 43727, USA
04-Kasler's Country Kitchen
04-Marathon
04-Millfield Mine Memorial
16182 Millfield Rd Millfield, OH, 45761, USA The Sunday Creek Coal Company operated dozens of mines in southeastern Ohio and West Virginia. Sunday Creek Coal Mine #6 in Millfield, Ohio was the site of one of the worst mining disasters in Ohio's history. On November 5, 1930, a buildup of methane gas exploded when the trolley the miners used to carry coal out of the mine produced a spark on the track. Eighty-two men were killed. Following the explosion, the mine closed for about a month. It re-opened and operated until 1945. Tougher safety regulations were instituted in 1931 as a result of the Sunday Creek Coal Mine disaster.
04-Muskingum Lock 7
McConnelsville
04-Newbaurn Rd bypass end
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