The Wendling Bridge is a

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in Lane County in the

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. The

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structure carries Wendling Road over Mill Creek in the

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of Wendling. Built in 1938, the bridge was added to the

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in 1979. Lane County built four covered bridges, including the Wendling Bridge, in 1938. The others are the Pengra,

Goodpasture Bridge The Goodpasture Bridge spans the McKenzie River near the community of Vida in Lane County, Oregon, United States. It is the second longest covered bridge and one of the most photographed covered bridges in the state. The Goodpasture Bridge i ...

, and

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bridges. A. C. Striker was then the county bridge superintendent. Notable features of the bridge include semi-elliptical portal arches and ribbon openings at the

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. The structure was named for the town, which had been named after George X. Wendling, a San Francisco millionaire who provided the largest investment into Booth-Kelly's expansion in the Mohawk valley in 1899.

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* {{Authority control 1938 establishments in Oregon Bridges completed in 1938 Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon Covered bridges in Lane County, Oregon National Register of Historic Places in Lane County, Oregon Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Oregon Wooden bridges in Oregon Howe truss bridges in the United States

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