Covered Bridges

[JasonW]

Wow! Here's a very cool video I found showing many of the beautiful Historic Covered Bridges here in Vermont!

Enjoy!
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[JasonW]

Here's another one.
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[nEighter]

LOVE EM. Let me ask you. Why did they decide to enclose these bridges? Just a question.. cause we don't have those around here :)

[Winchester]

thanks! reminds me of home on the east coast.

(we've got the longest covered bridge in the world near where I went to high school)

http://www.town.hartland.nb.ca/html/PostcardBridge.JPG

[JasonW]

thanks! reminds me of home on the east coast.

(we've got the longest covered bridge in the world near where I went to high school)

http://www.town.hartland.nb.ca/html/PostcardBridge.JPG

WOW!!!!!:surrender:

[JasonW]

LOVE EM. Let me ask you. Why did they decide to enclose these bridges? Just a question.. cause we don't have those around here :)

Many of these bridges were built during the young days of the Americas. The structures where all made of wood and deteriorated quickly in the weather. As a means to help these bridges last longer roofs and sometimes walls would be built around them to protect them from the weather.

It has obviously worked since many of these bridges have outlasted many other bridges built by modern methods.

[JasonW]

This one's not Historic but, interesting non the less. They are using the same building materials and methods, just with a little help from modern equipment.:)

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[Century Man]

Here's a picture of an historic remodeler inside of an old Vermont covered bridge.

[neolitic]

Here's a bit about one we lost.
and then recovered.

http://jenrinaldiphotography.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/bridgeton-covered-bridge-bridgeton-indiana/

One doesn't get many chances to
see 'em built now-a-days.
Scroll down for the pix.

http://www.parkecountyliving.com/bridgetonbridge.htm#bridgelifting

[WarriorWithWood]

We have lots of them in my county alone Jason.
http://pacoveredbridges.com/bucks_county__covered_bridges.htm

This is the oldest, it was built in 1836.
http://pacoveredbridges.com/South_PerkasieB_2.jpg

[neolitic]

One of my Grandpas was foreman
on the crew that moved this one.

http://i634.photobucket.com/albums/uu61/neoliticman/3213206-Ramp_Creek_Covered_Bridge-B.jpg

The Ramp Creek Covered Bridge crosses Salt Creek at the north entrance of Brown County State Park where it is subject to heavy traffic even though it is the oldest covered bridge still standing in Indiana as well as the only 2-lane covered bridge. This single span Burr Arch Truss structure has a length of 96 feet, or 110 feet including the 7-foot overhang at each end; both lanes are 11 feet wide and 12 feet high. Built in 1838 by Henry Wolf (Aaron Wolf is indicated by the notation on her gable), with Chillion Johnson as foreman, it originally spanned Ramp Creek in Putnam County, just south of Fincastle on what was known as the New Albany-Lafayette or Jeffersonville-Crawfordsville Turnpike, which later became State Road 43 and later still became US 231. The original financing for this structure originated with a State Legislative Act in 1836 that specified internal improvement, specifically, building of bridges, roads and canals throughout Indiana.

In 1932 internal improvements once again began to have an effect on the old bridge as road construction would have had the structure dismantled; however Richard Lieber apparently spearheaded the movement to transport the bridge 130 plus miles to the new State Park in Brown County. The Ramp Creek Covered Bridge was listed as #14-07-02 in the 1989 World Guide ... in the February 1941 "Indiana History Bulletin" Robert B. Yule and Richard C. Smith assigned the designation "ed" to this Covered Timber Bridge located in Section 20, Township 9 North, Range 3 East, at the north entrance of the State Park and southeast of Nashville.

[JasonW]

They even built them in Oregon.

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[WarnerConstInc.]

Here is one that is pretty close to me, driven that bridge several times.

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/indiana_covered_bridge_14_17_01.htm

[Century Man]

Here's a bit about one we lost.
and then recovered.

http://jenrinaldiphotography.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/bridgeton-covered-bridge-bridgeton-indiana/

One doesn't get many chances to
see 'em built now-a-days.
Scroll down for the pix.

http://www.parkecountyliving.com/bridgetonbridge.htm#bridgelifting

That's a cool story. I would have worked on that project free just to say I did it plus I love the carpentry skill involved in working with large dimension lumber.

[neolitic]

That's a cool story. I would have worked on that project free just to say I did it plus I love the carpentry skill involved in working with large dimension lumber.

I tried to get involved, but they were
a;ready "over manned" by the time
I heard about the project.

[nEighter]

Hey I understand about the protecting the bridge from the elements. I even thought it was to calm the nerves of horses passing over them pulling carts and buggies. BUT it just seems like they kinda rip you guys off. You have such beautiful scenery that those lil windows don't let you see the beauty :) BUT at the same time those bridges are just as beautiful and DEFINITELY make you feel that you are on the east coast.

[neolitic]

Hey I understand about the protecting the bridge from the elements. I even thought it was to calm the nerves of horses passing over them pulling carts and buggies. BUT it just seems like they kinda rip you guys off. You have such beautiful scenery that those lil windows don't let you see the beauty :) BUT at the same time those bridges are just as beautiful and DEFINITELY make you feel that you are on the east coast.

Cool places for midnight picnics,






and such.

[Silvertree]

Hart Bridge made with lattice trusses and wood pegs.
West Cornwall, I grew up 20 miles from here but fished for trout by this bridge and partied nearby many times.

[WarnerConstInc.]

Cool places for midnight picnics,






and such.

Dirty old man!!:laugh3:

[neolitic]

Dirty old man!!:laugh3:

I was a young one too.

[JasonW]

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[Winchester]

We have lots of them in my county alone Jason.
http://pacoveredbridges.com/bucks_county__covered_bridges.htm

This is the oldest, it was built in 1836.
http://pacoveredbridges.com/South_PerkasieB_2.jpg

Good thing they built that one! I can't imagine having to cross that lawn without a bridge! :grin::grin::grin:

[Bodger]

My favorite is Sach's Bridge in Gettysburg.

This is worth the watch just to see the framing inside this beauty.

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