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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.
Today, two covered bridges remain: Green Sergeant's Covered Bridge (19th century) and Scarborough Bridge (1959). [6] U.S. New York: Twenty-four historic covered bridges identified by New York Society of Covered Bridges. U.S. North Carolina: Two remain, the Pisgah and Bunker Hill. [7] U.S. Ohio
James C. Carpenter was an American covered bridge builder in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.He is known to have built nine covered bridges, five of which still exist. Two of his bridges, Herr's Mill Covered Bridge and Colemanville Covered Bridge, are among the longest covered bridges remaining in the county.
The bridge was for a long time known as the longest covered bridge west of the Mississippi River, and since the 2011 destruction of Old Blenheim Bridge in New York State, which had approximately the same length, it is the second-longest covered bridge in the United States, behind the Smolen-Gulf covered bridge in Ohio.
Earlier this year: Waterford covered bridge is being rebuilt in time for its sesquicentennial in 2025 Today, the bridge is more than a historic landmark. It's a long-missed link in the township.
Only bridge in the US using this design [6] Pisgah Community Covered Bridge [1] Randolph: Pisgah: ca. 1910: 51 feet (16 m) Upper branch of the Little River Private: Modified queen: Will Henry Stevens Covered Bridge [7]: 61 Macon: Highlands
The bridge was built in 1875, and is 85 feet 11 inches (26.2 m) in length. The Waterford Covered Bridge is one of two remaining covered bridges in Erie County, along with the Harrington Covered Bridge. The bridge is also the only Town lattice truss bridge in the county and one of only 19 in Pennsylvania.
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