The Wendling Bridge is a covered bridge that is a 60-foot Howe truss structure carries Wendling Road over Mill Creek in the unincorporated community of Wendling. Built in 1938 at the cost $2,241, the bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The structure was named for George X. Wendling who established a post office nearby in the 1890s and director of Booth-Kelly Lumber Company. The Wendling Bridge, built just prior to World War II, appears to be hidden on the winding road northeast of Marcola. Like the nearby Earnest Bridge, the Wendling Bridge showed faded, peeling circus posters pasted on its walls between truss members until time, moisture and visitors removed them. Enjoy!! Shot 3/21/24