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In our final piece on the documented history of Kentucky’s covered bridges, we bring you three more. These in particular bring home the resilience of such structures, most of which were built in ...
Newport, Kentucky, and Cincinnati, Ohio: Campbell County, Kentucky, and Hamilton County, Ohio: KY-29: Kentucky 1013 Bridge Replaced Pratt truss: 1893 1990 KY 1013: Sand Lick Creek Plummers Landing: Fleming
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Barren River L & N Railroad Bridge: ca. 1900: 1980-11-26 Bowling Green: Warren: Camelback Beech Fork Bridge, Mackville Road
There are eleven surviving authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and they are all 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 second installment of our guide to covered bridges, we look at three more and some bridge-building families who contributed to their construction and preservation. Kentucky’s covered ...
David Gouverneur Burnet (April 14, 1788 – December 5, 1870) was an early politician within the Republic of Texas, serving as the interim president of Texas in 1836, the second vice president of the Republic of Texas (1839–1841), and the secretary of state (1846) for the new state of Texas after it was annexed to the United States.
Bennett's Mill Covered Bridge, near Greenup, Kentucky, was built in 1855. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [1] It brings Brown Covered Bridge Road (County Route 2125) over Tygarts Creek, west of Greenup. It was defended by two hidden cannon during the American Civil War. [2]
The replacement was part of a project that also replaced its sister bridge, the Eggner's Ferry Bridge over Kentucky Lake. Due to their location in the New Madrid Seismic Zone and their intended use as an evacuation route during an emergency, the new bridges were designed to withstand a large earthquake, as well as meet current highway standards ...