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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 ...
Media related to Thomas Mill Covered Bridge at Wikimedia Commons; 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
In 1929, with the bridge covered in weeds, local housewife Antoinette Burnham came up with the idea of transforming the bridge into a garden. Since it was not needed as a footbridge and could not be demolished because it carried a water main between the two towns, the community agreed to her idea. The Shelburne Woman's Club sponsored the ...
The Kapellbrücke (literally, Chapel Bridge) is a covered wooden footbridge spanning the river Reuss diagonally in the city of Lucerne in central Switzerland.Named after the nearby St. Peter's Chapel, [1] the bridge is unique in containing a number of interior paintings dating back to the 17th century, although many of them were destroyed along with a larger part of the centuries-old bridge in ...
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.
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 ...
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Hyde Hall Bridge is a wooden covered bridge over Shadow Brook built in 1825, on then-private property of Hyde Hall, a country mansion. Both are now included in Glimmerglass State Park . With the possible exception of the Hassenplug Bridge in Pennsylvania (also built in 1825), it is the oldest documented, existing covered bridge in the United ...