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Christman Covered Bridge was the penultimate bridge built by Sherman; only the Warnke Covered Bridge was built later. It was named for a Solomon Christman who owned the land around the bridge and operated a sawmill downstream. [3] Trace remnants of the mill are visible near the road 200 yards (180 m) west of the bridge.
A map of numbered covered bridges in New Hampshire, 1967 Stark Covered Bridge, built in 1857, over the Upper Ammonoosuc River Contoocook Railroad Bridge is the oldest covered railroad bridge of its kind in the United States Conway is home to the Saco River Bridge, built in 1890 Sign for NH Covered Bridge No. 2 (Coombs Covered Bridge) along NH Route 10
The Old Covered Bridge is a c. 1941 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 81 and signed "Moses". It has been in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum since 1957.
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 ...
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.
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.
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 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]