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A covered bridge is a bridge with enclosed sides and a roof. They are often single-lane bridges. The bridges are frequently made out of wood. Newer ones are frequently made out of concrete or metal with glass sides. Such bridges are found in rural areas throughout the United States and Canada, but are often threatened by arsonists, vandalism, and flooding. They are also common around eastern Canada and in the United States in places such as Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lane County, Oregon, Madison County, Iowa and Parke County, Indiana. Parts of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and the New England states also have surviving covered bridges. Famous covered bridges include the Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy which is one of only three over the Canal Grande and a popular tourist attraction. Opened on July 4, 1901, the 1,282 foot (390 meter) covered bridge crossing the St. John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada, is currently the longest covered bridge in the world. It is a Canadian National Historic Site. A much longer covered bridge (5,960 feet) between Columbia, Pennsylvania and Wrightsville, Pennsylvania once spanned the mile-wide Susquehanna River, but it was burned June 28, 1863 by Union Army militia during the American Civil War to prevent its usage by the Confederate States Army Army of Northern Virginia during the Gettysburg Campaign. In 1900, New Brunswick had an estimated 400 covered bridges, and Quebec more than 1000, while Ontario had only had 5. There are a lot of covered bridges, called "Wind and Rain Bridges" in the China province of Guizhou. These were traditionally built by the Dong people minority people. Covered bridges are generally considered old-fashioned, and appeal to tourists, but the purpose is simple: to build a structure for weather protection over the working part of the bridge. A bridge built entirely out of wood, without any protective coating, may last 10 to 15 years. Builders discovered that if the bridge’s underpinnings were protected with a roof, the bridge could stand for 70, or even 80 years. The existing covered bridges have been renovated using concrete footings and steel trusses to hold additional weight and to replace the original support timbers. Modern covered bridges are usually for pedestrians, for example to walk from one part of an office building to another part, to cross railway tracks at a train station, or in a shopping center on an elevated level, crossing a road. See also skyway. Glass-walled covered bridges are rather common at American airports, and some of those bridges can be found at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City. Also, some highway bridges, such as the George Washington Bridge, have lower decks for additional capacity, and those decks, while generally open on the sides, can be enclosed with plastic from time to time during construction, thus rendering the lower decks as partially covered bridges. Covered bridges received much recognition as a result of the success of the novel, ''The Bridges of Madison County'' written by Robert James Waller and made into a Hollywood motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood. ==See also== *List of Michigan covered bridges ==External links== *[http://www.800padutch.com/covbrdg.shtml "Pennsylvania Dutch" covered bridges] *[http://www.coveredbridges.com Covered Bridges of Parke County, Indiana], "covered bridge capital of the world" *[http://www.invenicetoday.com/art-tour/bridges/rialto.htm Rialto Bridge] *[http://www.odot.state.or.us/eshtm/cb.htm Oregon covered bridges] *[http://www.virtualvermont.com/coveredbridge/ Vermont covered bridges] - VirtualVermont.com web page with information and photographs of covered bridges Bridges Covered bridges
as a brit, I've only seen these in films. What are they for? why are they covered? what are the advantages? -- User:Tarquin :Added a bit. It's fairly obvious, if you put a roof and walls over a bridge, it will be better protected from the weather. User:Ortolan88 :: never underestimate culture shock. I'm used to bridges build of brick or stone that withstand the weather, so the idea that a bridge's structure might ''not'' doesn't immediately spring to mind. -- User:Tarquin ''When crossing a covered bridge, soldiers must march out of step to avoid causing vibrational damage. '' This is true of any (badly-built) bridge, as the Millenium Bridge debacle in London proved. I don't think it's specific to covered bridges, which is why I moved it out of the main article. Feel free to disagree... :) User:Cferrero 16:15 Mar 14, 2003 (UTC) ''Some covered bridges (skyways) were ruined in the September 11th attacks, at the World Trade Center.'' There were a lot of windows broken in the Sept11 attack too but I don't see it mentioned in the Window article. If this piece of information is really worthwhile (for example if the destroyed skyways were historically or architecturally important) it should be mentioned. At the moment the paragraph does not make any sense (so I'm moving it out of the article). ---- I've recently uploaded an image of Potter's Bridge (covered bridge), in Noblesville, Indiana history section. I haven't added it to this article, as I wasn't sure if it make the article to cluttered with pictures, but it's there nonetheless if anyone feels the inclination to use it. --User:Randolph 03:22, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC) ---- == World's longest covered bridge == I added a paragraph concerning one of the key events in the American Civil War's Gettysburg Campaign when a crucial covered bridge (the only one between the state capital of Harrisburg and the Maryland border) was burned to prevent passage over the rain-swollen Susquehanna River. This bridge has been an architectural marvel, spanning nearly a mile and a quarter. It was rebuilt after the war, but destroyed again by a windstorm and rebuilt again as an open iron truss bridge for the Pennsylvania Railroad. User:Scott Mingus 12:23, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
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A covered bridge is a bridge with enclosed sides and a roof. They are often single-lane bridges. The bridges are frequently made out of wood. Newer ones are frequently made out of concrete or metal with glass sides. Such bridges are found in rural areas throughout the United States and Canada, but are often threatened by arsonists, vandalism, and flooding. They are also common around eastern Canada and in the United States in places such as Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lane County, Oregon, Madison County, Iowa and Parke County, Indiana. Parts of Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and the New England states also have surviving covered bridges. Famous covered bridges include the Rialto Bridge in Venice, Italy which is one of only three over the Canal Grande and a popular tourist attraction. Opened on July 4, 1901, the 1,282 foot (390 meter) covered bridge crossing the St. John River at Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada, is currently the longest covered bridge in the world. It is a Canadian National Historic Site. A much longer covered bridge (5,960 feet) between Columbia, Pennsylvania and Wrightsville, Pennsylvania once spanned the mile-wide Susquehanna River, but it was burned June 28, 1863 by Union Army militia during the American Civil War to prevent its usage by the Confederate States Army Army of Northern Virginia during the Gettysburg Campaign. In 1900, New Brunswick had an estimated 400 covered bridges, and Quebec more than 1000, while Ontario had only had 5. There are a lot of covered bridges, called "Wind and Rain Bridges" in the China province of Guizhou. These were traditionally built by the Dong people minority people. Covered bridges are generally considered old-fashioned, and appeal to tourists, but the purpose is simple: to build a structure for weather protection over the working part of the bridge. A bridge built entirely out of wood, without any protective coating, may last 10 to 15 years. Builders discovered that if the bridge’s underpinnings were protected with a roof, the bridge could stand for 70, or even 80 years. The existing covered bridges have been renovated using concrete footings and steel trusses to hold additional weight and to replace the original support timbers. Modern covered bridges are usually for pedestrians, for example to walk from one part of an office building to another part, to cross railway tracks at a train station, or in a shopping center on an elevated level, crossing a road. See also skyway. Glass-walled covered bridges are rather common at American airports, and some of those bridges can be found at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City. Also, some highway bridges, such as the George Washington Bridge, have lower decks for additional capacity, and those decks, while generally open on the sides, can be enclosed with plastic from time to time during construction, thus rendering the lower decks as partially covered bridges. Covered bridges received much recognition as a result of the success of the novel, ''The Bridges of Madison County'' written by Robert James Waller and made into a Hollywood motion picture starring Meryl Streep and Clint Eastwood. ==See also== *List of Michigan covered bridges ==External links== *[http://www.800padutch.com/covbrdg.shtml "Pennsylvania Dutch" covered bridges] *[http://www.coveredbridges.com Covered Bridges of Parke County, Indiana], "covered bridge capital of the world" *[http://www.invenicetoday.com/art-tour/bridges/rialto.htm Rialto Bridge] *[http://www.odot.state.or.us/eshtm/cb.htm Oregon covered bridges] *[http://www.virtualvermont.com/coveredbridge/ Vermont covered bridges] - VirtualVermont.com web page with information and photographs of covered bridges Bridges Covered bridges
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as a brit, I've only seen these in films. What are they for? why are they covered? what are the advantages? -- User:Tarquin :Added a bit. It's fairly obvious, if you put a roof and walls over a bridge, it will be better protected from the weather. User:Ortolan88 :: never underestimate culture shock. I'm used to bridges build of brick or stone that withstand the weather, so the idea that a bridge's structure might ''not'' doesn't immediately spring to mind. -- User:Tarquin ''When crossing a covered bridge, soldiers must march out of step to avoid causing vibrational damage. '' This is true of any (badly-built) bridge, as the Millenium Bridge debacle in London proved. I don't think it's specific to covered bridges, which is why I moved it out of the main article. Feel free to disagree... :) User:Cferrero 16:15 Mar 14, 2003 (UTC) ''Some covered bridges (skyways) were ruined in the September 11th attacks, at the World Trade Center.'' There were a lot of windows broken in the Sept11 attack too but I don't see it mentioned in the Window article. If this piece of information is really worthwhile (for example if the destroyed skyways were historically or architecturally important) it should be mentioned. At the moment the paragraph does not make any sense (so I'm moving it out of the article). ---- I've recently uploaded an image of Potter's Bridge (covered bridge), in Noblesville, Indiana history section. I haven't added it to this article, as I wasn't sure if it make the article to cluttered with pictures, but it's there nonetheless if anyone feels the inclination to use it. --User:Randolph 03:22, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC) ---- == World's longest covered bridge == I added a paragraph concerning one of the key events in the American Civil War's Gettysburg Campaign when a crucial covered bridge (the only one between the state capital of Harrisburg and the Maryland border) was burned to prevent passage over the rain-swollen Susquehanna River. This bridge has been an architectural marvel, spanning nearly a mile and a quarter. It was rebuilt after the war, but destroyed again by a windstorm and rebuilt again as an open iron truss bridge for the Pennsylvania Railroad. User:Scott Mingus 12:23, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
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