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THE FESTIVAL

INFORMATION

Special Events

The Pengra Bridge coin

was auctioned at the

2009 Blackberry Jam. 

Due to the high price of silver, the coin auction program has been postponed.  Details will be posted here as soon as the auctions resume.  Coins from some of the previous auctions are available at the website below.

   

To celebrate Lane County's covered bridge heritage - and to help maintain out-of-service bridges - the Public Works Department introduced a series of seventeen covered bridge commemorative coins.  The first, the Goodpasture Bridge Commemorative coin, was struck in the fall of 2005.  The other 16 are being released periodically.  The Lowell Bridge coin was auctioned at the Blackberry Jam in 2006. 

  Other details will appear on the

County’s website at: 

http://www.lanecounty.org/pw/bridgecoin.htm

Pengra Bridge Coin Auction

The biggest single sticks ever used in a covered span went into the Pengra Bridge in 1938.  They are 126 feet long and the men on the job referred to them as "Paul Bunyan's toothpicks."  The bridge replaced a 192-foot span built in 1904 over Fall Creek which had been only a few feet upstream from the present structure.  The effect of weather and traffic caused the county to close the bridge in 1979 but it was later reopened in 1995 with the help of a grant from the Oregon Covered Bridge Program.