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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]
A lattice truss bridge is a form of truss bridge that uses many small, closely spaced diagonal elements forming a lattice. The design was patented in 1820 by architect Ithiel Town .
Once the longest covered bridge in the United States. Bridge destroyed during a flood in July 1963. Mulberry: Cullman: Hanceville: N/A 220 Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River: Bridge no longer extant. Nectar: Blount: Nectar: 1934 385 Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River: Once the seventh longest covered bridge in the country.
This 86.5-foot-long (26.4 m), 18.66-foot-wide (5.69 m), Howe truss bridge was built in 1855. It was renovated by the Works Progress Administration in 1939, and by the city of Philadelphia in 2000. [2] It is the only remaining covered bridge in Philadelphia and is the only covered bridge in a major US city.
More modern or otherwise not-as-authentic covered bridges in New York State also exist. Peter Folk lists the following 18 bridges: [5] Waldbillig Bridge, in Albany County; Voorheesville School Bridge, in Albany County; Munson Bridge in Broome County; Thomas E. Kelly Bridge in Cattaraugus County; Erpf Bridge in Delaware County
Name Image County Location Built Length Crosses Ownership Truss Notes Ashland Covered Bridge [1]: New Castle: Ashland: ca. 1860: 52 feet (16 m) Red Clay Creek
The bridge, service roads and hamlet all take their names from the local Van Buskirk family. [ 3 ] A marker on the north side commemorates the old Cambridge Turnpike, which follows Stage Road near the north entrance to Turnpike Road where another turnpike marker is located at the site of the Checkered House in Cambridge, New York, a landmark ...
The bridge structure is built out of a series of panels and other steel elements, joined by rivets, and its deck consists of I-beam stringers covered by a concrete base. [2] The bridge was built in 1911, its trusses built by the American Bridge Company to a design by John W. Storrs, a prolific local bridge engineer. It was originally built as a ...