Bill Text: WV HCR79 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: John and Wilbur Hahn Dutch Hollow Pioneers Bridge
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-20 - To House Roads and Transportation [HCR79 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-HCR79-Introduced.html
HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 79
(By Delegate Sponaugle)
[Introduced February 20, 2018; Referred to the Committee on Roads and Transportation then Rules]
Requesting the Division of Highways to name bridge number 16-48-54 EB & WB (16A132, 16A133), locally known as the Sauerkraut Run Bridges, carrying US 48 (EB & WB) over Sauerkraut Run & CR 23/8 in Hardy County, the “John and Wilbur Hahn Dutch Hollow Pioneers Bridge”.
Whereas, John and Wilbur Hahn, the youngest sons of Lorenza and Amanda Rebecca Michael Hahn, family of five girls and three boys, went to school at Maple Grove, where they only had school for about four months. The Hahns trace 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 1800's. The Hahns came over on a boat with members of the Michael family, and branches of both families settled in Dutch Hollow. They farmed and, when the demand arose, cut timber in the woods around their homesteads. John is deceased and Wilbur, (age 89 has recently had a leg amputated), carried on that pioneering tradition of farming and pulpwood sawmill from 1939. They 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. The brothers have 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 that bridge on Route 259 (Corridor H) crossing Sauerkraut Road at Dutch Hollow in Hardy County, the “John and Wilbur Hahn Dutch Hollow Pioneers Bridge” 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 16-48-54 EB & WB (16A132, 16A133), locally known as the Sauerkraut Run Bridges, carrying US 48 (EB & WB) over Sauerkraut Run & CR 23/8 in Hardy County, the “John and Wilbur Hahn Dutch Hollow Pioneers Bridge”; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is requested to have made and be placed signs identifying 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.
