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West entrance of bridge. Most covered bridges were made of the strongest readily available wood. In the case of the Humpback Covered Bridge, this meant white oak and hickory. The bridge, as it stands today, has most of the original hand-hewn support timbers and decking that was laid down in 1857, however, most of the walls and roofing have been ...
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. PA-19, "Covered Bridge, Thomas Mill Road (Spanning Wissahickon Creek), Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA", 2 photos, 1 color transparency, 2 measured drawings, 2 photo caption pages; Article at Drexel University "A Bridge Too Old", by Amy Choi, Philadelphia Citypaper, August 27–September 3, 1998
Parke County, Indiana has the most covered bridges of any county in the United States with 31 covered bridges [1] All of the covered bridges in Lancaster County, except for the Hunsecker's Mill Covered Bridge, Kurtz's Mill Covered Bridge, and the Willow Hill Covered Bridge, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The longest, historical covered bridges remaining in the United States are the Cornish–Windsor Bridge, spanning the Connecticut River between New Hampshire and Vermont, and Medora Bridge, spanning the East Fork of the White River in Indiana. Both lay some claim to the superlative depending upon how the length is measured.
While the Old Blenheim Bridge had and Bridgeport Covered Bridge has longer clear spans, and the Smolen–Gulf Bridge is longer overall, with a longest single span of 204 feet (62 m), the Cornish–Windsor Bridge is still the longest wooden covered bridge and has the longest single covered span to carry automobile traffic. (Blenheim was and ...
Covered bridges made with stringers instead of traditional style trusses are considered non-authentic, although in some terms, a stringer construction is also a type of truss. Examples of truss construction on covered bridges include Howe, Town Lattice , Queen-post , King-post , Haupt, Burr , Brown and Pratt.
The Taftsville Covered Bridge is a timber-framed covered bridge which spans the Ottauquechee River in the Taftsville village of Woodstock, Vermont, in the United States. [1] Built in 1836 and exhibiting no influence from patented bridge designs, [ 1 ] it is among the oldest remaining covered bridges both in Vermont [ 2 ] and the nation as a whole.
Also called Dover Covered Bridge [3] Oldtown Covered Bridge [2] Greenup: Oldtown: 1850-1874, 1999 190 feet (58 m) Frazer Branch, Little Sandy Creek: County of Greenup: Warren or Multiple king: Ringos Mill Covered Bridge [2] Fleming: Flemingsburg