Antelope Creek Bridge, Covered bridge in Eagle Point, Oregon.
Antelope Creek Bridge is a 58-foot wooden covered bridge spanning Little Butte Creek in Eagle Point. Its queenpost truss is modified by an added kingpost, and it has ribbon openings under the eaves, cantilevered buttresses, a cedar roof, semi-circular portals and board siding without battens.
The bridge was built in 1922 by brothers Wes and Lyle Hartman to serve the Medford-Crater Lake Road crossing. It became an essential link in regional transportation during that era.
The bridge's name comes from Antelope Creek, the stream it crossed at its original site north of Medford; it now stands over Little Butte Creek, about 2 miles (3 km) from where that creek joins Antelope Creek. Visitors reach it on foot in Covered Bridge Park, beside the veterans' memorial.
The bridge stands in Covered Bridge Park in Eagle Point, next to the veterans' memorial, and now carries pedestrians rather than vehicles. Visitors reach it on foot within the park; the structure is a 58-foot (18 m) wooden span over Little Butte Creek.
The bridge was not hauled on a trailer: in 1987 volunteers dismantled it and reassembled it over Little Butte Creek in Eagle Point. It was temporarily delisted from the National Register in 1988 because restoration had added side windows not in the original; after these were corrected it was re-added in 2012.
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