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A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. [1] The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather.
William McKone, founder of the Vermont Covered Bridge Society, takes us to Jeffersonville for a history lesson on our state's iconic covered bridges.
The World Guide to Covered Bridges is published by the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges (NSPCB). [1] It uses a covered bridge numbering system developed by John Diehl, the chairman of the Ohio Covered Bridge Committee. The committee first used the numbering system in 1953 to publish a list of covered bridges in Ohio. [2]
This is a list of covered bridges in New York State. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation identifies 29 covered bridges in New York State as historic, but these are not all listed on the National Register of Historic Places .
It will be officially reopened in ceremonies hosted by the township, Fort LeBoeuf Historical Society and WECAN Waterford on Friday. A covered bridge, first "built in 1875 by the Phelps Bros ...
The Dover Covered Bridge was built in 1835 and is perhaps the oldest covered bridge in Kentucky, according to the National Register of Historic Places. At the very least, Dover is the oldest ...
Seventeen historic covered bridges; the three oldest ones are also the longest. U.S. Wisconsin: The only remaining historic covered bridge in Wisconsin is the covered bridge in Cedarburg. [16] [17] There are also the Smith Rapids Covered Bridge in Park Falls built in 1991, [18] and the Springwater Volunteer Covered Bridge built in 1997. [19]
The covered bridge is to reopen to the public in August 2025, the borough said. The South Perkasie span is unique among the county’s covered bridges because it sits in Lenape Park , on land.