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Vt. covered bridge hit, damaged by truck

After ignoring warning signs for Sanderson Bridge in Brandon, Vermont, a tractor trailer driver damaged the covered bridge after attempting to drive through it.

January 16, 2019

Roadbuilding

Struck twice this year, 142-year-old N.H. covered bridge closed for repairs

A 142-year-old bridge in Jackson, New Hampshire is being repaired after being closed to traffic since July 2018. Get more details here on Equipment World.

September 5, 2018

Roadbuilding

182-year-old Ky. covered bridge gets temporary repairs after flood damage

Kentucky transportation officials report that Dover Covered Bridge, which was built in 1835 in Mason County in northeastern Kentucky, has been temporarily stabilized after it was damaged by major flooding along Lee Creek in 2017. Two 12,000-pound steel support beams that had been added to the bridge in the 1980s were torn off by the […]

March 7, 2018

Roadbuilding

Monroe Co. (Ind.) will soon have a new covered bridge

Monroe County, Indiana, which once boasted as many as 14 covered bridges, lost its last covered bridge to fire in 1976, but it will soon have a new one by reconstructing a vintage 1885 covered bridge over Beanblossom Creek. According to U.S. News, the new bridge will be the Cedar Ford Bridge, a vintage 1885 covered bridge […]

January 15, 2018

Roadbuilding

Madison County (Iowa) receives grant to rebuild burned covered bridge

A grant has been awarded to rebuild the Madison County covered bridge that was destroyed by three teenage arsonists on April 15. According to the Des Moines Register, the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs told the Madison County Chamber of Commerce that it would receive $275,770 to rebuild the famous Cedar Covered Bridge in Winterset. […]

December 28, 2017

Roadbuilding

New Brunswick covered bridge to be restored

Some Charlotte County residents who launched a campaign to make sure New Brunswick didn’t lose another covered bridge were thrilled to learn that the McGuire covered bridge in Elmsville, near St. George, will be restored. The St. Couix Courier reports that the bridge had been closed because of structural problems. Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Bill Fraser […]

November 27, 2017

Roadbuilding

Historic NY covered bridge gets $2.6 million makeover

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the completion of a $2.6 million makeover of a historic covered bridge near the Catskill Mountains, The Associated Press reports. The 98-foot single-span bridge, which is located in Beaverkill Campground in Sullivan County, was originally built in 1865 by John Davidson and is listed on the National Register of […]

July 10, 2017

Roadbuilding

Painstaking restoration of historic covered bridge in the Catskills nears completion

Beaverkill Covered Bridge, a 116-foot-long covered bridge built in Sullivan County, New York, in 1865, is getting a much-needed renovation, thanks to Friends of Beaverkill Community (FOBC), a group of residents who want to preserve the historic bridge, the Times Herald-Record reports. The bridge was put on the state historic register in 2007. Six years later, […]

November 28, 2016

Roadbuilding

Bennett’s Mill Covered Bridge Historical Society holds annual preservation dinner

Covered bridges, which are beautiful representatives of a simpler past, are quickly going the way of the dinosaurs. However, the Bennett’s Mill Covered Bridge Historical Society is doing everything it can to preserve the bridge the group is named for in Greenup, Ky. According to a report in The Daily Independent, the society hosted its annual Dinner on […]

June 24, 2016