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The Old Covered Bridge is located just east of the village of Sheffield Plain, spanning the Housatonic River at the ends of Covered Bridge Lane. The bridge is approached from the west by a causeway extending all the way to United States Route 7, and from the east by a causeway about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) long, both crossing the river's flood plain.
Old Covered Bridge [2] Berkshire: Sheffield: 1837-1838, 1854, rebuilt 1998 93 feet (28 m) Housatonic River: Town of Sheffield: Town: Also called Upper Sheffield/Sheffield Bridge; original bridge burned in 1994 Sawyer Pond Bridge [1]: 62–63 Essex: Magnolia
Old Covered Bridge. November 24, 1978 Covered Bridge Lane ... MA 23-41, Buttonball Lane, Sheffield, and Pinecrest Hill Rds. South Egremont: 149: South Lee Historic ...
Reinforced with present-day materials, both bridges carry normal vehicle traffic, albeit in only one direction at a time. The third bridge, Old Covered Bridge located in Sheffield, Massachusetts, was destroyed by fire and rebuilt in 1998; it is now open only to foot traffic. [15]
In 1805, a rustic bridge over Wappinger Creek was replaced with a newly designed covered bridge, which stood until 1911.
The Brotherton bridge, built in 1875, reopened on Nov. 7. A ribbon-cutting ceremony is planned for Friday at 5 p.m. Recovered: Historic covered bridge has been repaired and reassembled in Waterford
The most famous encounter from this incident was alleged to occur in Sheffield near Old Covered Bridge. Thomas Reed and his family were crossing the bridge when they saw a disc-shaped object hovering in the air. Reed described the craft as a "white orb" that was "bigger than a football field".
The driver of a dump truck learned the hard way that it's best not to tempt fate on a covered bridge originally built before the Civil War. The weight limit on the bridge was 3 tons (2,700 ...