1 Acre
Hours: 8:00 am - dark
Location: 1515 C.R. 9, Fremont, OH 43420
County Road 9, west of SR 53. There is a small gravel parking area.
Description & History: The MullCovered Bridge was built in 1851 by the Henry Mull Family to allow for safe access for trade to the Mull mill. The bridge was open to traffic until 1962 when the road was diverted and a new bridge was constructed. In 1974 the Mull Covered Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of the last remaining covered bridges in Northwest Ohio.
Activities: History, Metal Detecting
1962 Ceremony opening the new section of County Road 9, closing the Mull Covered Bridge to traffic
(photos courtesy of Doug West)
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Truss type is Town Lattice
"The Mull bridge was completed in 1851 and to get our bearing, let us remind ourselves that the Seneca Indians left this area in 1820, so that the area known as the Black Swamp became available to settlers and was turned into a veritable garden of Paradise for agricultural crops and fruits…Now, the first white child born in Ballville townshop was Margaret Frary. She was then 30 years old when this bridge was built. Rutherford B. Hayes, on his way to the Presidency of the United States, had been practicing law several years in Fremont. Millard Fillmore was President of the United States. Henry Clay was debating the issue of slavery…The foreboding clouds of the Civil War were on the horizon, only ten years away, and within the decade Lincoln would become President. Raw recruits from farms and hamlets would cross this very bridge – this covered bridge – in response to Abraham Lincoln’s call for seventy-five thousand volunteers, because he thought it was going to be a short war. The old bridge was really a pioneer.” -- excerpt from “Bridges, Old and New” presented by Dr. J.R. Walter, August 2, 1961.
