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Foraker Covered Bridge

Foraker / Weddle Covered Bridge
On Plainview Rd. (CR40) southeast of Graysville
Monroe County, Ohio
Truss Type - Multiple Kingpost
35-56-14
92 feet long Built in 1886
Restored in 2005
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gforaker 04-Mar-2009 21:34
My Grandfather Foraker grew up very near to the bridge. I don't believe it is named after Governor Foraker, but he was a cousin or something of the family - not particularly close, yet related. There were a number of Forakers living in the area then. Joseph Foraker from Highland county was elected Governor in 1886, so it is possible he had something to do with the bridge name. Perhaps a combination of both, but I recall the family saying it was named for the local Forakers. There were hundreds of small bridges like this back then, so it would not have been a great honor.

My Grandfather was always something of a speed demon, whether horse or car. When growing up he would ride his horse across the bridge at full gallop and his parents only heard the hooves hit 3 times. They would yell at him to little effect.

I am happy to hear it was restored, I have not seen it in years.

Gene Foraker
Guest 12-Oct-2008 21:02
Interesting documentary pictures especially of the restoration.
Toni Weddle Weaver 04-Jan-2008 03:24
thank you for having some wonderful pictures. I am a weddle and we grow up on the bridge playing in it. We were always told not to go near the bridge, but everyone did. They redid it in 2005 and it is not the same, I wish they would have kept alot of the old feeling of the bridge.
Harry Lembeck 19-Jan-2007 16:01
How did the bridge get its name? I am researching a book to be about Sen. Joseph B. Foraker and the Brownsville Incident and would like to know if it was named after him. Thank you.

Harry Lembedck
Steven Brode 16-Dec-2005 20:31
Mr. Hamilton
If you get an oppertunity, please return and shoot this bridge again. My company, The W.M. Brode Company, just completed restoring this bridge(11/2005). Interesting enough the company was founded the same year Foraker was built, 1887. I appreciate your photos of the other covered bridges. One of my first projects for the company was the restoration of the Helmick covered bridge. I just wish we could have stained the siding. Thanks again for your photographs.
Steven
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