SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 65

(By Senators Williams and Stollings)

[Introduced March 9, 2016]

Requesting Division of Highways name bridge number 16-48-28.54 EB & WB (16A132, 16A133) (39.06601, -78.66368), locally known as Sauerkraut Run EB & WB, carrying US 48 (Cor. H) over County Route 23/9 and Sauerkraut Run 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 1800s. 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, who is deceased, and Wilbur, who is age ninety, 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 bridge 16-48-28.54 EB & WB (16A132, 16A133) (39.06601, -78.66368), locally known as Sauerkraut Run EB & WB, carrying US 48 (Cor. H) over County Route 23/9 and Sauerkraut Run 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 the bridge 16-48-28.54 EB & WB (16A132, 16A133) (39.06601, -78.66368), locally known as Sauerkraut Run EB & WB, carrying US 48 (Cor. H) over County Route 23/9 and Sauerkraut Run in Hardy County, the “John and Wilbur Hahn Dutch Hollow Pioneers Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of the Division of Highways is hereby 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 Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways and Wilbur Hahn and his family and the families of John Hahn.