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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]
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.
With the 2011 destruction of the Old Blenheim Bridge, the Bridgeport Covered Bridge is the undisputed longest-span wooden covered bridge still surviving. Historically, the longest single-span covered bridge on record was Pennsylvania's McCall's Ferry Bridge with a claimed clear span of 360 feet (110 m) (built 1814–15, destroyed by ice jam 1817).
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
There is a covered bridge in Frankenmuth, Michigan. There are at least 7 others throughout the state. U.S. Minnesota: Twenty-three covered bridges including one on the National Register of Historic Places. U.S. Missouri: Four historic covered bridges, all now listed as State Historic Sites. U.S. New Hampshire
The bridge housing included flared board-and-batten siding, arched portals, ribbon daylighting and wooden flooring; The bridge has long been closed to vehicular traffic but served pedestrian traffic up until quite recently when the approaches were removed; delisted from the NRHP; by tradition the oldest covered span in Oregon, thought its ...
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Also known as Blind Susie Covered Bridge, locally. [2] Poole's Mill Covered Bridge [1] Cumming, Forsyth County: 1901 94.6 feet (28.8 m) Settendown Creek Town lattice: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places: Rockdale County Covered Bridge: Conyers, Rockdale County: 1997 150 feet (46 m) Mill Rock Creek Decorative lattice: Stone ...