Bill Text: WV HCR71 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: John and Wilbur Hahn Dutch Hollow Memorial Pioneers Bridge
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-14 - To House Technology and Infrastructure [HCR71 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2019-HCR71-Introduced.html
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 71
(By Delegates Sponaugle and Hartman)
[Introduced February 14, 2019]
Requesting the Division of Highways name bridge number 16-48-28.54 EB & WB (16A132, 16A133), locally known as Sauerkraut Run Bridge, carrying U.S. 48 (EB & WB) over County Route 23/9 and Sauerkraut Run in Hardy County, the “John and Wilbur Hahn Dutch Hollow Memorial Pioneers Bridge.”
Whereas, John and Wilbur Hahn, the youngest sons of Lorenza and Amanda Rebecca Michael Hahn, a family of five girls and three boys, went to school at Maple Grove, where they had school only about four months a year. The Hahns traced their ancestry back to the Rhine Valley of Germany and immigrants from there who arrived in the United States sometime in the mid-to-late 1800s; and
Whereas, The Hahns came over from Europe on a boat with members of the Michael family, and branches of both families settled in Dutch Hollow, where they farmed, and, when the demand arose, cut timber in the woods around their homesteads. John and Wilbur carried on that pioneering tradition of farming and pulpwood sawmill from 1939; and
Whereas, The brothers owned and operated a small gasoline-powered sawmill on their farm, with some help from John’s son Mickey, in Dutch Hollow, Hardy County despite the changes brought to the industry by modern technology; and
Whereas, The brothers remained part of a close-knit family, still enjoying Sunday dinners with relatives at the Hahn farmhouse, located near the site of the sawmill; and
Whereas, Naming the bridge on Route 259 (Corridor H) crossing Sauerkraut Road in Dutch Hollow is an appropriate recognition of their family’s pioneering contributions to their state, community and Hardy County; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name bridge number 16-48-28.54 EB & WB (16A132, 16A133), locally known as Sauerkraut Run Bridge, carrying U. S. 48 (EB & WB) over County Route 23/9 and Sauerkraut Run in Hardy County, the “John and Wilbur Hahn Dutch Hollow Memorial Pioneers Bridge”; and, be it.
Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of the Division of Highways is hereby requested to erect signs at both ends of the bridge containing bold and prominent letters proclaiming the bridge as the “John and Wilbur Hahn Dutch Hollow Pioneers Bridge”; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates forward a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways.
