Covered Bridges (3)

 Starting out with miscellaneous bridges which I didn't have names for their files.

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Does a pedestrian bridge count? We can certainly guess where this is!

Inside the pedestrian bridge at Old Salem Village, NC. which just goes over a road below.

Central Ohio - Mill Creek

Cottage Grove, Covered Bridge Tour, Oregon

Covered bridge in Lancaster County Central Park. Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Covered Bridge In West Arlington, Vermont!

Covered Bridge Mountain Air Country Club - Burnsville, NC, by Yurko Design and Architecture, Asheville NC

What? Burnsville is near where I live in Black Mountain! Can I go see it?

OK, first it's a private country club. They do have a FaceBook page, and my mouth dropped open at all that happens there. Arrival via private plane or helicopter is perfectly fine on the runways. No photos of this tiny little bridge among all the others posted. So I'll keep it in my collection as memorabilia, but doubt that I can go find it in person, if it even exists still.

Cox Ford Bridge, Parke County, Indiana

East Hill Bridge over the Flatrock River, Rushville Indiana

The Cornish-Windsor Bridge, New Hampshire

The Cornish-Windsor Bridge

Thanks Marcia for letting me know about this New Hampshire bridge.

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When I  posted a picture of Tiananmen Square's student protest yesterday, I was acknowledging that the Chinese young people at that time had learned what a democracy was...somehow in a communist state.

The autocracy now moving through the USA wants to change the history being taught to our children. Please make efforts to keep accurate history in our schools, so we don't miss learning about democracy compared to those Chinese almost 40 years ago.

Covered Bridges (part 2)

I was interested in finding out some history of covered bridges after posting my first blog in this series. Wikepedia shares this... 

The oldest surviving truss bridge in the world is the Kapellbrücke in Switzerland, first built in the 1300s. Modern-style timber truss bridges were pioneered in Switzerland in the mid-1700s.^[9] Germany has 70 surviving historic wooden covered bridges.^[10]

Spreuer Bridge in Lucerne

• The Holzbrücke Bad Säckingen spans the river Rhine from Bad Säckingen, Germany, to Stein, Switzerland. It was first built before 1272, and has been destroyed and rebuilt many times.
• Switzerland has many timber covered bridges,^[11] including Kapellbrücke, Spreuer Bridge, and Neubrügg.
• The Ponte Coperto in Pavia is a stone and brick arch bridge over the Ticino River in Pavia, Italy. The previous bridge, dating from 1354 (itself a replacement for a Roman construction), was heavily damaged by Allied bombing in 1945. A debate on whether to fix or replace it ended when the bridge partially collapsed in 1947, requiring new construction, which began in 1949.

About 14,000 covered bridges have been built in the United States,^[13] mostly in the years 1825 to 1875.^[2] The first documented was the Permanent Bridge, completed in 1805 to span the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia.^[14][15] However, most other early examples of covered bridges do not appear until the 1820s. Extant bridges from that decade include New York's Hyde Hall Bridge and Pennsylvania's Hassenplug Bridge, both built in 1825, and the Haverhill–Bath Covered Bridge and the Roberts Covered Bridge, in New Hampshire and Ohio respectively, both built in 1829.^[5]

The vast majority of America's remaining covered bridges can be found in the eastern states with the notable exception of Oregon, which possesses a collection of around fifty.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covered_bridge

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Baltimore

Bartram-Goshen Covered Bridge

The following are taken from the two directions of this covering over a roadway, named Blue Ridge, Georgia. I don't see any indication that it is really a bridge, nor goes over a waterway of any kind. Can it be considered a covered bridge?

Bridge of Dreams - Brinkhaven, Ohio

Someone is thinking along more modern lines for this bridge.

Brinkhaven, Ohio

It seems someone else liked that name...

Another view for Brinkhaven, Ohio

Bridge On The Kal-Haven Trail by Michael Kucinski

Unknown red wooden bridge. I tried to increase contrast and darken the photo...can you read whatever the sign says?

That's all the bridges labeled with "B" or one without a label. There are a few more in my folder...

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Covered Bridges (part 1)

 

A Red Wooden Bridge near Milton Janesville Wisconsin in Rock County -Photo by Matt Anderson via Flickr

This bridge had the same caption as the first, but they are obviously different bridges. So which one is where, I wonder.

Albany Covered Bridge- Manish Mamtani Photography.

Albany Covered Bridge, New Hampshire Thos Schoeller Photo

Unlabeled photo of probably the same bridge.

Amnicon Falls Bridge Missouri

Artist-'s Covered Bridge Nick Lambert Bethel, Maine

Autumn at the Bob White Covered Bridge - Adam Jewell

These are just the tip of the iceberg, as they say. The ones with A as their first letter in the labels I gave them. Unfortunately I've at least as many without any names at all...and I'm trying to see if they are photos of the other named photos. So this is all for now.

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