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The Hansen Bridge is one of four signle-lane bridges that connect the town of Downieville, California. Originally built in 1935, it was the only bridge to survive the 1937 flood, which destroyed both the Jersey Bridge and the Durgan Bridge. [2] The Hansen Bridge sustained damage in the 1937 flood but was repaired and returned to service by 1938.
There are ten authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of California, and eight of them are historic. [1] A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction. An authentic bridge is constructed using trusses rather than other methods such as stringers, a popular choice for non-authentic covered bridges.
The current bridge was completed and opened to traffic in February 1964. [4] It was constructed by U.S Steel Corp's American Bridge division and Massman Construction Co. [3] The structure won awards for engineering, design, and beauty. It was in the top 5 longest span arch bridges of this "supported deck" type in the world until the 1990s.
The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered wooden bridges typically have a lifespan of only 20 years because of the effects of rain and sun, but a covered bridge can last over 100 years. [2] In the United States, only about 1 in 10 survived the 20th century. [3]
The term "covered bridge" is sometimes used broadly to describe any "bridge-like structure" that is covered by a roof. However, bridge-like structures such as Heilig-Geist-Spital, a hospital built out over two arched spans into the Pegnitz river in Nuremberg, but which did not ever provide a complete crossing to the other side, are not included ...
It is located in Monterey County, on the State Route 1 (Cabrillo Highway) about 12 miles (19 km) south of the city of Carmel, and about a mile north of the more famous Bixby Creek Bridge. Rocky Creek Bridge is one of seven similar bridges along State Route 1 known as the Big Sur Arches, it is individually eligible for the National Register of ...
The Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge, more commonly known as the Russian Gulch Bridge, is a reinforced concrete open-spandrel deck arch bridge on California State Highway 1, spanning Russian Gulch Creek in Russian Gulch State Park, Mendocino County, California, United States. It is named after Frederick W. Panhorst, who served as the Chief of the ...
The Dinkey Creek Bridge, also known as Fresno County Bridge No. 42C-04, [a] is a single-span, timber bowstring arch truss bridge that crosses Dinkey Creek in Fresno County, California, within Sierra National Forest. Built in 1938, it closed to automobile traffic in 1965 and was renovated in 1988 to replace rotting timbers.