Covered Bridge Facts and Trivia
- Covered bridges are covered to protect the wood from rain and moisture, which prevents it from rotting.
- The Church Hill Road Bridge is the shortest covered bridge in the USA. It is still standing in Columbiana County, Ohio. It was built in 1875.
- Early covered bridges were often used as Town Halls and other meeting halls.
- The state of Ohio has been building brand new covered bridges...example...Charles A. Harding Memorial Bridge, in Olmsted Falls, built in 1998.
- Parke County, Indiana is know as the Capital Bridge County of the World, with 32 historical bridges.
- The Hartland covered bridge is the longest covered bridge in the world at 1,282 feet long. It is located in New Brunswick, Canada. It was built in 1921. You need to turn on your headlights to cross it.
An Untitled Poem
If they could only talk?
They'd tell us of the ones who rode
And those who had to walk,
The rich, the poor....those in-between
Who used their planks to cross,
The soldiers, farmers, businessmen
In buggies, sleighs, by "hoss",
Like sentinels these bridges stand
In spite of flood and fire,
Their rugged, stalwart strength remains
Our future to inspire."
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