Black Pugh’s Mill Covered Bridge
10.17.09
I have a great wife! Right when I think she’s fed up with my covered bridges and Mail Pouch barns, she surprises me with, “I found a covered bridge you should shoot”. She saw this on the way to visit some friends that were camping up north of Oxford when I was in Flemingsburg shooting a bluegrass festival.
Last weekend she took me back to her “find” and this is the resulting photograph.
Tags: Covered Bridge, Ohio, Ohio Covered Bridge, Travel photography
This might have been the first covered bridge that I ever photographed. We went to Hueston Woods between semesters back in 1984, and Rick, Jeff and I stopped here on the way out of Oxford. Back then it was in horrible shape, so bad that I wouldn’t consider walking across it. It looked like a big, grey ghost slumped across the water, and I would have bet my paycheck that it wouldn’t make it out of the 80′s without collapsing.
There’s another covered bridge in the general vicinity of this one at Governor Bebb Park outside of Oxford. Just to the north, Preble County is also a good place to find several bridges.