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A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. [1] The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather.
A lattice truss bridge is a form of truss bridge that uses many small, closely spaced diagonal elements forming a lattice. The design was patented in 1820 by architect Ithiel Town .
Once the longest covered bridge in the United States. Bridge destroyed during a flood in July 1963. Mulberry: Cullman: Hanceville: N/A 220 Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River: Bridge no longer extant. Nectar: Blount: Nectar: 1934 385 Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River: Once the seventh longest covered bridge in the country.
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.
The World Guide to Covered Bridges is published by the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges (NSPCB). [1] It uses a covered bridge numbering system developed by John Diehl, the chairman of the Ohio Covered Bridge Committee. The committee first used the numbering system in 1953 to publish a list of covered bridges in Ohio. [2]
Covered bridges are timber-truss bridges with a roof and siding which, in most covered bridges, create an almost complete enclosure. [1]The purpose of the covering is to keep snow from accumulating—winter snow accumulation could easily collapse a bridge, and the steep roof would tend to shed snow to either side.
The only arched covered bridge remaining in the United States. Jack's Creek: Patrick: Woolwine: 1914 48 Smith River: Only historic covered bridge remaining in Patrick County. Link Farm: Giles: Newport: 1912 49 Sinking Creek: Narrowest covered bridge in Virginia at 12 feet (3.7 m) wide. Privately owned. Meems Bottom: Shenandoah: Mount Jackson ...
The Bath Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge over the Ammonoosuc River off US 302 and NH 10 in Bath, New Hampshire. Built in 1832, it is one of the state's oldest surviving covered bridges. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, [1] and underwent a major rehabilitation in the 2010s.