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Barrackville Covered Bridge. This is a list of West Virginia covered bridges. There are 17 historic wooden covered bridges in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Only three of these bridges were built before 1870 and they are the three longest in the state. Each uses a standard truss design, braced with the Burr Arch. No one-truss design dominates ...
Name Image Built Listed Location County Type Alderson Bridge: 1914 1991-12-04 Alderson: Greenbrier, Monroe: Concrete arch bridge B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing
The Barrackville Covered Bridge spans 145 feet (44 m) in a single span across Buffalo Creek near Barrackville, West Virginia. Built in 1853 by local bridge builder Lemuel Chenoweth , the structure is a modified arched Burr truss , with siding added twenty years after the bridge's construction.
Pages in category "Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The Philippi Covered Bridge is the oldest [3] and longest covered bridge in West Virginia and one of only two remaining in Barbour County. It is also the only covered bridge on the United States Numbered Highway System (as part of U.S. Route 250). It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.
Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia (17 P) Pages in category "Covered bridges in West Virginia" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Name Image County Location Built Length Crosses Ownership Truss Notes Ashland Covered Bridge [1]: New Castle: Ashland: ca. 1860: 52 feet (16 m) Red Clay Creek
WV-25: Bridgeport Bridge: Replaced Pratt truss: 1893 1988 US 40 (former) Ohio River back channel Wheeling, West Virginia, and Bridgeport, Ohio: Ohio County, West Virginia, and Belmont County, Ohio: WV-31: Staats Mill Covered Bridge: Relocated Howe truss: 1882 1982