Covered Wooden Bridge

[Celticstoneman]

A neighbor to my farm did a neat thing, built a covered bridge over the stream crossing the lane leading to his house. It and an old car permanently parked by it add a nice old-time feel to the place. View attachment 68703
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I took the pictures and I shoot muzzleloaders, so It's OK.

Spence

That man is my hero! Thanks for sharing those beautiful photos!

 

[bore_butter]

A neighbor to my farm did a neat thing, built a covered bridge over the stream crossing the lane leading to his house. It and an old car permanently parked by it add a nice old-time feel to the place. View attachment 68703
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I took the pictures and I shoot muzzleloaders, so It's OK.

Spence

we ride our motorcycles down 509 all the time, very pretty area. guess i should be carrying the pietta with me.

 

[toot]

This one is located in Davy Crockett State Park in Lawrenceburg Tn.

areal beauty, I like it that it has a pedestrian walk way / bridge on the side of it!

 

[toot]

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This beautiful bridge in Oregon is 180 feet long, and is and is one of only two in the state using triple Howe truss construction. It is the only covered bridge west of the Mississippi River which has a separate pedestrian walkway.

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It's in Westfir, Lane County, in the South-west of the state.

I'm including it here because I'm a muzzleloader and I've crossed it.

walk way. and it is also covered!!

 

[Jay Templin]

There was one in Livingston Manor, NY as recently as 5 years ago, but I haven’t been up there since.
Jay

 

[Eterry]

I grew up riding horses for a living (if you wanted to call it living). The problem we faced with horses, and mules, was the sound their hooves made on the bridge floor. Wood or concrete, the hollow sound drove them nuts. We blindfolded more than one horse and they still wouldn't cross, but if we wrapped their hooves in burlap they walked nervously across it.

No covered bridges in Texas, wood is too precious. I always figured the cover was to keep the wood from rotting.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Maybe some idiots thought it was built with slave labor back in the day and made a statement.

YES this is what I suspected too, but..., such knuckleheads tend to "let their motives be known" even if it's by an anonymous tip. The fact that 150 years ago is 1871 and no slaves were enslaved at that time..., wouldn't make a difference to such "activists".

On the other hand it really could've been an accident as well as vandals using arson, just to watch the thing burn.

Anybody checked out if there is a large company that would benefit from a new bridge replacing the old covered one, that could handle larger, heavier trucks? Wouldn't be the first time a fire preceded "civic improvement"....

LD

 

[bore_butter]

YES this is what I suspected too, but..., such knuckleheads tend to "let their motives be known" even if it's by an anonymous tip. The fact that 150 years ago is 1871 and no slaves were enslaved at that time..., wouldn't make a difference to such "activists".

On the other hand it really could've been an accident as well as vandals using arson, just to watch the thing burn.

Anybody checked out if there is a large company that would benefit from a new bridge replacing the old covered one, that could handle larger, heavier trucks? Wouldn't be the first time a fire preceded "civic improvement"....

LD

That road has been routed around that bridge years ago and there is a turn off to park your cars and such and visit the ole bridge. the county went all out to provide some some pleasurable view of the past. the way money is now i doubt that they can come up with enough to replace it.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

LD