Spellacy Covered Bridge and Pleasant Hill Dam Clear Fork Mohican River near Loudonville, OH

Bridge: (Satellite)

Dam: (Satellite)

Wally Road Scenic Byway posted five photos with the comment:

A little history about the name of our beautiful Spellacy Covered Bridge 

Spellacy Bridge

The mystery of the name Spellacy had hopes of being a romantic story of a long gone family that lived in the area. A story filled with blood, sweat and tears soaking the soil in the efforts to keep the family and farm thriving.  A story that would lead us to generations of family members that broke ground, fell trees and became a vital part of the areas history. 

But in actuality…….the name arrived in the form of Matthew Spellacy, a railroad contractor, born in 1843 in Ireland who got the contract for that section of the railroad track. 

According to his obituary, Mr Spellacy, who died in  September 1912 at 67 years of age, was a well-known contractor, director and large stockholder of the Driving Park Association, died at his home in Alton Ohio. During his life in Franklin County he managed some of the most important contracting work in the country.  He built the Norfolk and Western, worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad and built the Toledo and Ohio Central Belt Line.  He accumulated much wealth and gave generously to many charities and to individuals among the poor.

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Luke O'Neal, Oct 2018

This shows the outlet control works on the right and the morning glory spillway in the right foreground.

Street View, Jul 2024

I hope the morning glory spillway is big enough because I could not find an emergency spillway for this earthen dam.

Satellite

Wild Marks, Aug 2023