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Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River: Bridge was destroyed by a flood. Gable: Blount: Blountsville: N/A 240 Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River: Bridge no longer extant. Garden City: Cullman: Garden City: 1891 280 Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River: Bridge burned down on October 12, 1951. Gay: Cullman: Pleasant Grove: 1898 123 ...
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.
Below is a list of covered bridges in Vermont. There are just over 100 authentic covered bridges in the U.S. state of Vermont, giving the state the highest number of covered bridges per square mile in the United States. A covered bridge is considered authentic not due to its age, but by its construction.
The Medora Covered Bridge was the longest covered bridge in the United states with the entire original historic truss still in place with some repairs but no structural changes. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Measuring the clear span (abutment face to abutment face) of 431 feet 10 inches (131.62 m), [ 3 ] the Medora Covered Bridge is the longest historic covered ...
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 ...
Sarvis Fork Covered Bridge aka "Sandy Creek Covered Bridge" and "New Era Covered Bridge" Sandyville, Jackson County: 1889, 2000 [4] 101 feet (31 m) Left Fork Sandy Creek Long truss: Simpson Creek Covered Bridge aka "Hollens Mill Covered Bridge" Bridgeport, Harrison County: 1881 74 feet (23 m) Simpson Creek Multiple king post: Staats Mill ...
The bridge housing included flared board-and-batten siding, arched portals, ribbon daylighting and wooden flooring; The bridge has long been closed to vehicular traffic but served pedestrian traffic up until quite recently when the approaches were removed; delisted from the NRHP; by tradition the oldest covered span in Oregon, thought its ...
White Covered Bridge is a historic wooden covered bridge located at Greene Township in Greene County, Pennsylvania. It is a 66.5-foot-long (20.3 m), Queenpost truss bridge with a gable roof, constructed in 1919. It crosses Whiteley Creek. As of October 1978, it was one of nine historic covered bridges in Greene County. [2]