Knowlton Bridge in Monroe Co., OH, collapsed last summer

[Elizabeth W Knowlton]

    My news is a little late, a non-Knowlton cousin who was getting into SE Ohio research pointing it out to me, but the central span of the Knowlton bridge, featured on the cover of Dean Case's tome, The Descendants of Daniel Knowlton and Zerviah Watkins (2009, 558 pp.), collapsed last summer in one of the frequent floods of the Little Muskingum River.  I offer here two links to stories of the collapse.

https://www.thestructuralengineer.info/news/historic-bridge-collapses-in-ohio-footage-recorded-on-camera

https://www.theintelligencer.net/news/community/2019/07/knowlton-bridge-collapsed-before-renovation/

    Dean's grandfather was born in a house near the bridge.  He is busy caring for his mother at the moment but hopes to share more history of this family with us later.
    The area is still delightfully rural due to the initially important river transportation (on the nearby Ohio) being replaced by train, auto, and airplane.  This part of SE Ohio probably fostered more descendants of Daniel (#232) Knowlton than any other location despite some children moving to Nova Scotia with him, and others remaining in upstate New York or moving on across Ohio west as the state filled with white settlers.
    I am only glad that I made the trip to Marietta and to Monroe Co., OH, in 2016 and walked across the bridge.   

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Elizabeth