Tag: covered bridges
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10 covered bridges
Covered bridges you can drive through.
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National Road and US 40 bridges over the Wabash River in Terre Haute, Indiana
A look at three successive bridges over the Wabash River along US 40/National Road in Terre Haute, Indiana.
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A survey of US 36 in western Indiana
A quick tour of US 36 in western Indiana, including a covered bridge and an old alignment that ends in a lake.
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The covered bridge at Bridgeton, Indiana
2006 photos from the freshly built covered bridge in Bridgeton, Indiana.
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single frame: Cumberland County Covered Bridge
A new-ish (2000) covered bridge in Greenup, Illinois.
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single frame: Roann Covered Bridge
The 1872 wooden covered bridge in Roann, Indiana.
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single frame: Cross this bridge at a walk
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The Bean Blossom Covered Bridge
A covered bridge spans Bean Blossom Creek in a deep valley. We visited it.
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single frame: Inside the Bridgeton Covered Bridge
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An illustrated history of the American road bridge, part 1
Rivers, streams, lakes, and valleys have always hindered our ability to get from here to there. That’s why bridge building has been a fundamental human engineering activity since the dawn of civilization. We humans have always been a resourceful species that doesn’t let obstacles stand in our way! But thanks to the automobile, modern times…