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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
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]
A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, ... Covered Bridge Map, an interactive map showing locations of covered bridges in the United States and Canada ...
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.
Fish Creek Covered Bridge aka "Hundred Covered Bridge" Hundred, Wetzel County: 1881, 2001 [4] 30 feet (9.1 m) Fish Creek King post: Fletcher Covered Bridge aka "Ten Mile Creek Covered Bridge" Cutler, Harrison County: 1891 58 feet (18 m) Tenmile Creek Multiple king post: Herns Mill Covered Bridge aka "Milligan Creek Covered Bridge" Asbury ...
Below is a list of covered bridges in Massachusetts. As of 2003 [update] , there were twelve authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Massachusetts of which seven are historic. [ 1 ] : 60 A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction.
There are nine authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Illinois. Five 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.
In the early 1800s, the first covered bridge in the United States was constructed by Timothy Palmer crossing the Schuylkill River at 30th Street in Philadelphia. [2] This new bridge type, wooden with a covered span, was developed because traditional European methods, typically stone bridges, were not appropriate for the harsh Pennsylvania winters.