Ohio – Page 5 – EBAnderson

The Longaberger Basket

The Longaberger Company headquarters is a basket, arising on the east side of Newark, Ohio.

As a long-time Newark resident, it was always amusing to watch visitors heading east on State Route 16 east of downtown. You can’t actually see the basket until you top a crest on the expressway and there it is. Experienced local drivers know to watch for brakelights as visitors try to figure out this big basket looming on the edge of town.

Getting an interesting image of the basket isn’t as easy as it sounds. While it’s tucked away along the side of an expressway, trees and traffic obscure much of the view.

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Pigeon Roost Farm

Not long after Tanya and I met, we went to the fall festival at Pigeon Roost Farm in Hebron, Ohio. It’s about 25 miles east of Columbus and is a great time with pumpkins and fall fun things.

It was brilliant sunshine filled day and the red, white and blue combination of the barn and sky was just too powerful to pass up.

This is one of my favorite images. Not long after this, we decided to get married.

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Culbertson Bridge

Culbertson Covered Bridge was built in 1872-1873 by Reuben L. Partridge at a cost of $1,375, using his “Partridge Block” truss design. This bridge was originally constructed across Treacle’s Creek on State Route 4, south of Milford Center. In 1921, the bridge was replaced, but the wooden superstructure was saved for reuse for a new bridge on Winget Road. The bridge was put into place in 1922 on abutments built by Reed & Snyder. In 1988, Union County employees rehabilitated the bridge by installing wood girders inside the wood trusses and suspended the floor from the girders. The Partridge trusses currently carry only the weight of the original bridge. The steel piers under the bridge are not original.

Reuben L. Partridge was born on September 10, 1823, in Wilmington, New York. He came to Marysville, Ohio in 1836 where he learned wagon and carriage making and later operated a carpentry and furniture business. As early as 1855 he began building bridges and patented his own wood truss design in 1872, which was used in many of his covered bridges. Over the next 45 years Partridge constructed hundreds of bridges throughout Ohio. He joined the Columbus Bridge Company in 1886, which built iron and wood bridges for highways and railroads. Partridge died on July 17, 1900, after being injured while removing an old wooden bridge. He is buried at Oakdale Cemetery, Marysville, Ohio.