Ackley Covered Bridge Acrylic Print

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Dearborn Michigan USA. In the mid 1930s, Henry Ford began to search for a covered bridge to add to Greenfield Village. Henry Fords interest in bridges instilled heightened local pride of those states that had covered bridges. As a result many dilapidated covered bridges were suddenly considered to have historic value and were retained and repaired. The Ackley Covered Bridge was built over Wheeling Creek between Washington and Greene counties in southwestern Pennsylvania by Joshua Ackley and Daniel Clouse in 1832 on land owned by the Joshua Ackley family. The bridge had fallen into disrepair and was scheduled to be torn down after 105 years of service. Mrs. Harleigh J. Carroll Ackleys granddaughter acquired the bridge and in turn gave it to Henry Ford in 1937. The massive kingpost trusses of the aging structure were gently dismantled, then carefully trucked 300 miles back to Dearborn and reassembled on its present site.

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