New England's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide
During the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth centuries, the erection of nearly one thousand covered bridges was recorded in New England’s archives. However, the ravages of time, storms, floods, neglect, and vandals have reduced the remaining historic, authentic covered bridges to fewer than two hundred. While the majority of these bridges are in the states of Vermont and New Hampshire, wonderful examples of covered bridges can be found in all six of the New England states.

In the preparation for writing this book, the Evanses traveled 13,821 miles documenting and photographing more than 200 covered bridges. The introduction to the book familiarizes readers with covered bridges by discussing their history, twelve different kinds of truss designs, and current preservation and restoration efforts. The Evanses provide, for each of the 206 bridges in this book, the name of the bridge, its location, specific directions to the bridge, its year of construction, its truss design, and the name of the waterway it crosses. Additional information includes whether the bridge is in use, its number of spans, the names of its owner and builder, its length and width, its condition, number, national register data, and anecdotal material. A short glossary of covered-bridge terminology is also included.

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New England's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide
During the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth centuries, the erection of nearly one thousand covered bridges was recorded in New England’s archives. However, the ravages of time, storms, floods, neglect, and vandals have reduced the remaining historic, authentic covered bridges to fewer than two hundred. While the majority of these bridges are in the states of Vermont and New Hampshire, wonderful examples of covered bridges can be found in all six of the New England states.

In the preparation for writing this book, the Evanses traveled 13,821 miles documenting and photographing more than 200 covered bridges. The introduction to the book familiarizes readers with covered bridges by discussing their history, twelve different kinds of truss designs, and current preservation and restoration efforts. The Evanses provide, for each of the 206 bridges in this book, the name of the bridge, its location, specific directions to the bridge, its year of construction, its truss design, and the name of the waterway it crosses. Additional information includes whether the bridge is in use, its number of spans, the names of its owner and builder, its length and width, its condition, number, national register data, and anecdotal material. A short glossary of covered-bridge terminology is also included.

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New England's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide

New England's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide

by Benjamin D. Evans, June R. Evans
New England's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide

New England's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide

by Benjamin D. Evans, June R. Evans

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During the nineteenth and the early part of the twentieth centuries, the erection of nearly one thousand covered bridges was recorded in New England’s archives. However, the ravages of time, storms, floods, neglect, and vandals have reduced the remaining historic, authentic covered bridges to fewer than two hundred. While the majority of these bridges are in the states of Vermont and New Hampshire, wonderful examples of covered bridges can be found in all six of the New England states.

In the preparation for writing this book, the Evanses traveled 13,821 miles documenting and photographing more than 200 covered bridges. The introduction to the book familiarizes readers with covered bridges by discussing their history, twelve different kinds of truss designs, and current preservation and restoration efforts. The Evanses provide, for each of the 206 bridges in this book, the name of the bridge, its location, specific directions to the bridge, its year of construction, its truss design, and the name of the waterway it crosses. Additional information includes whether the bridge is in use, its number of spans, the names of its owner and builder, its length and width, its condition, number, national register data, and anecdotal material. A short glossary of covered-bridge terminology is also included.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781584653202
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 06/01/2004
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

BENJAMIN D. EVANS and JUNE R. EVANS are the authors of Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide (1993). Long-time covered-bridge aficionados, they are co-editors of Pennsylvania Crossings, the newsletter of The Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society of Pennsylvania, Inc. They are also members of covered bridge societies in several other eastern states including the Vermont Covered Bridge Society and the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction - I. Covere Bridges in New England
II. Locating Covered Bridges
III. The Structure of New England's Covered Bridges
IV. Working to Preserve New England's Covered Bridges
V. The Rehabilitation of New England's Covered Bridges
VI. The Guide to New England's Covered Bridges
VII. Covered Bridge Terminology
Connecticut - Hartford County
Litchfield County
Middlesex County
Tolland County
Maine - Aroostook County
Cumberland County
Lincoln County
Oxford County
Oxford/York Counties
Penobscot County
Piscataquis County
Massachusetts - Berkshire County
Essex County
Franklin County
Hampden County
Hampshire/Worchester Counties
Middlesex County
Worchester County
New Hampshire - Belknap County
Carroll County
Cheshire County
Coos County
Grafton County
Hillsborough County
Merrimack County
Strafford County
Sullivan County
New Hampshire/Vermont - Coos/Essex Counties
Sullivan/Windsor Counties
Rhode Island - Providence County
Vermont - Addison County
Bennington County
Caledonia County
Chittendon County
Franklin County
Lamoille County
Orange County
Orleans County
Rutland County
Washington County
Windham County
Windsor County
Bibilography
Index of Bridges

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James L. Garvin

"Benjamin and June Evans' New England's Covered Bridges is the first summation in a quarter century of the region's rich legacy of wooden bridges. Meticulously researched, carefully written, and beautifully illustrated, the book takes its place as the standard guide for a region that cherishes some of the oldest, newest, longest, and strongest of America's covered bridges."
James L. Garvin, New Hampshire State Architectural Historian

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