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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.
Seventeen historic covered bridges; the three oldest ones are also the longest. U.S. Wisconsin: The only remaining historic covered bridge in Wisconsin is the covered bridge in Cedarburg. [16] [17] There are also the Smith Rapids Covered Bridge in Park Falls built in 1991, [18] and the Springwater Volunteer Covered Bridge built in 1997. [19]
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.
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 ...
Also called Foothill Roots Farm Covered Bridge Wawona Covered Bridge [2] Mariposa: Wawona: 1868, 1878, 1956 138 feet (42 m) South Fork, Merced River: Yosemite National Park: Modified queen: Zane's Ranch Covered Bridge [1] Humboldt: Rosewood
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 ...
[4] [8] The original bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 1973. [1] In 2009, the county planned to spend over $19,000 on capital improvements for the Covered Bridge County Park, with part of the money to be used for new decking and railings for the bridge. [7]