Spine The Schofield Ford or Twining Ford Bridge, which was originally completed in early 1874 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania (page 205), was burned by arsonists in 1991 and completely rebuilt in 1997 by local volunteers. Today, it offers passage across the picturesque Neshaminy Creek in Tyler State Park. A stone pier supports the bridge, which likely was constructed as a single span utilizing the Town lattice truss. (A. Chester Ong, 2010)
Page 1 Blacksmith Shop Bridge, New Hampshire (page 171). (A. Chester Ong, 2010)
Page 2 Knight’s Ferry Bridge, California (page 248). (A. Chester Ong, 2012)
Page 5 Twining Ford Bridge, Pennsylvania (page 205). (A. Chester Ong, 2010)
Pages 6–7 Ashuelot or Upper Village Bridge, New Hampshire (page 166). (A. Chester Ong, 2010)
Front endpaper The longest historical covered bridge in the United States, the Cornish-Windsor Bridge (page 172), crosses the Connecticut River between New Hampshire and Vermont. On a heavily traveled route with a ten-ton load limit, the bridge carries two-way traffic day and night. In addition to ongoing maintenance to its Town lattice truss, extensive repairs have been carried out periodically since it was constructed in 1866. (A. Chester Ong, 2010)
Back endpaper Thomas Wilson’s painting of Eagle Mills in Rennsselaer County, New York, depicting the village around 1845, places a two-lane covered bridge at its center, flanked by large mill- or factory-type structures along with a wooden mill building next to the dam. Today, a cider mill sits next to the dam and an undersized covered two-lane pedestrian bridge crosses Poesten Kill nearby. The main part of the village is seen in the distance. (Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum)
Twining Ford Bridge, Pennsylvania (page 205). (A. Chester Ong, 2010)
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Ashuelot or Upper Village Bridge, New Hampshire (page 166). (A. Chester Ong, 2010)
Introduction
New Perspectives on North America’s Covered Bridges
CHAPTER ONE
The Birth of the North American Covered Bridge
CHAPTER TWO
The Evolution of Covered Bridge Design
CHAPTER THREE
From Planning to Reality: Erecting Covered Bridges
CHAPTER FOUR
Covered Bridges in the Face Of Progress
CHAPTER FIVE
Finding A Place for Covered Bridges in the Twenty-first Century
CHAPTER SIX
Iconic Covered Bridges of the United States and Canada
Ashuelot or Upper Village Bridge, New Hampshire
Porter-Parsonsfield Bridge, Maine
Bridge-at-the-Green or West Arlington Bridge, Vermont
West Cornwall Bridge, Connecticut
Blacksmith Shop Bridge, New Hampshire
Cornish-Windsor Bridge, New Hampshire
Pier Railroad or Chandler Station Bridge, New Hampshire
Scott Bridge, Vermont
Stark Bridge, New Hampshire
Taftsville Bridge, Vermont
Bath Bridge, New Hampshire
Northfield Falls’ Five Covered Bridges, Vermont
Packsaddle or Doc Miller Bridge, Pennsylvania
Halls Mills Bridge, New York
Jackson’s Mill or Barnhart’s Bridge, Pennsylvania
McConnell’s Mill Bridge, Pennsylvania
Bogert’s Bridge, Pennsylvania
Dreibelbis Station Bridge, Pennsylvania
East Paden and West Paden Bridges (Twin Bridges), Pennsylvania
Philippi Bridge, West Virginia
White Bridge, Lippincott Bridge, Danley Bridge, and Hughes Bridge, Pennsylvania
Blenheim Bridge, New York
Schofield Ford or Twining Ford Bridge, Pennsylvania
Doe River Bridge, Tennessee
Bunker Hill Bridge, North Carolina
Humpback Bridge, Virginia
Hortons Mill Bridge, Alabama
Watson Mill Bridge, Georgia
Clarkson-Legg Bridge, Alabama
Eldean Bridge, Ohio
Smolen-Gulf Bridge, Ohio
Cataract Falls Bridge, Indiana
Geer Mill Bridge, Ohio
Jackson Bridge, Indiana
Bridgeton Bridge, Indiana
John Bright #2 Bridge, Ohio
Medora Bridge, Indiana
Moscow Bridge, Indiana
Otway Bridge, Ohio
Roberts Bridge, Ohio
Rock Mill Bridge, Ohio
Roseman Bridge, Iowa
Harpersfield Bridge, Ohio
Whitewater Canal Aqueduct, Indiana
Pengra Bridge, Oregon