List Of New York Covered Bridges
This is a list of covered bridges in New York State. The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation identifies 29 covered bridges in New York State as historic, but these are not all listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ThNew York Society of Covered Bridgeslists 24 historic covered bridges. One of the NRHPs, Old Blenheim Bridge, has further been declared to be a National Historic Landmark and also has described by a Historic American Engineering Record. It may be the longest single-span covered bridge in the United States or in the world. 24 identified by New York Society of Covered Bridges (ordered by counties): The following is a list of 24 of the historic New York State covered bridges. 18 identified by Peter Folk More modern or otherwise not-as-authentic covered bridges in New York State also exist. Peter Folk lists the following 18 bridges: [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Covered Bridges
A covered bridge is a timber-truss bridge with a roof, decking, and siding, which in most covered bridges create an almost complete enclosure. The purpose of the covering is to protect the wooden structural members from the weather. Uncovered wooden bridges typically have a lifespan of only 20 years because of the effects of rain and sun, but a covered bridge could last over 100 years. In the United States, only about 1 in 10 survived the 20th century. The relatively small number of surviving bridges is due to deliberate replacement, neglect, and the high cost of restoration. European and North American truss bridges Typically, covered bridges are structures with longitudinal timber-trusses which form the bridge's backbone. Some were built as railway bridges, using very heavy timbers and doubled up lattice work. In Canada and the U.S., numerous timber covered bridges were built in the late 1700s to the late 1800s, reminiscent of earlier designs in Germany and Switzerland. T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Lower Shavertown Covered Bridge Back
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Hyde Hall Bridge
Hyde Hall Bridge is a wooden covered bridge over Shadow Brook built in 1825, on then-private property of Hyde Hall, a country mansion. Both are now included in Glimmerglass State Park. With the possible exception of the Hassenplug Bridge in Pennsylvania (also built in 1825), it is the oldest documented, existing covered bridge in the United States. The World Guide to Covered Bridges and its entries of both the National Register of Historic Places and the Historic American Engineering Record list it as being constructed in 1825. The Historic American Buildings Survey entry for it shows an 1830 erection date. The bridge consists of a single span using a Burr Arch Truss and was constructed by master carpenter Cyrenus Clark with assistance from carpenter Andrew Alden and stonemason Lorenzo Bates. Renovations to the bridge were performed by the State of New York in 1967. It is one of 29 historic covered bridges in New York State. See also *List of bridges documented by the Historic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Spruce Creek (New York)
Spruce Creek may refer to: Canada * Spruce Creek (British Columbia), a stream in the Atlin Country United States Colorado * Spruce Creek (Larimer County, Colorado), a tributary of the Big Thompson River Florida * Spruce Creek Airport, in Port Orange * Spruce Creek High School, in Port Orange * Spruce Creek (Florida), a tributary of the Halifax River Iowa * Spruce Creek (Iowa) a tributary of the Upper Mississippi River Maine * Spruce Creek (Maine), a creek in York County, Maine New York * Spruce Creek (New York), crossed by the Salisbury Center Bridge in Herkimer County Pennsylvania * Spruce Creek (Pennsylvania), a tributary of the Little Juniata River * Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community * Spruce Creek Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania West Virginia * Spruce Creek (West Virginia) Spruce Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Spruce Creek was named for the spruce trees along its course. See also *List of rivers of West Virginia ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Herkimer County, New York
Herkimer County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 60,139. Its county seat is Herkimer. The county was created in 1791 north of the Mohawk River out of part of Montgomery County. It is named after General Nicholas Herkimer, who died from battle wounds in 1777 after taking part in the Battle of Oriskany during the Revolutionary War. Herkimer County is part of the Utica–Rome Metropolitan Statistical Area. History In 1791, Herkimer County was created as one of three counties split off from Montgomery (the other two being Otsego and Tioga counties) as New York State was developed after the American Revolutionary War. Its area was much larger than the present county, however, and was reduced subsequently as more counties were organized. Part of Herkimer County was included in the Macomb's Purchase of 1791, during the wide-scale sale of public lands after the state forced Iroquois tribes allied with the British during the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Salisbury Covered Bridge May 08
Salisbury ( ) is a cathedral city in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne. The city is approximately from Southampton and from Bath. Salisbury is in the southeast of Wiltshire, near the edge of Salisbury Plain. Salisbury Cathedral was formerly north of the city at Old Sarum. The cathedral was relocated and a settlement grew up around it, which received a city charter in 1227 as . This continued to be its official name until 2009, when Salisbury City Council was established. Salisbury railway station is an interchange between the West of England Main Line and the Wessex Main Line. Stonehenge is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is northwest of Salisbury. Name The name ''Salisbury'', which is first recorded around the year 900 as ''Searoburg'' (dative ''Searobyrig''), is a partial translation of the Roman Celtic name ''Sorbiodūnum''. The Brittonic suffix ''-dūnon'', meaning "fortress" (in reference t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Salisbury Center Bridge
Salisbury Center Bridge is the only covered bridge in Herkimer County, New York State. It was built in 1875, and is a wood frame Burr Truss bridge measuring long and wide. The bridge has vertical board siding and is topped by a gable roof. ''Note:'' This includes an''Accompanying photographs''/ref> The wooden bridge is one of 29 covered bridges in New York State. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ... in 1972. References External links Salisbury Center Bridge, at New York State Covered Bridge Society Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Bridges completed in 1875 Wooden bridges in New York (state) Bridges in Herkimer County, New York Tourist attractions i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ausable River (New York)
The Ausable River (), also known as AuSable River and originally written as "Au Sable", runs in the U.S. state of New York, from the Adirondack Mountains and past the village of Lake Placid and Au Sable Forks to empty into Lake Champlain (at ). It has an East and West branch that join at Au Sable Forks. The river forms a partial boundary between Clinton County and Essex County. The Ausable River is known for its gorge, Ausable Chasm, located a few miles east of Keeseville. The Ausable River is long and drains a watershed of . It was originally named "Au Sable" (French for "sandy") by Samuel de Champlain when he first explored the region in 1609 because of its extensive sandy delta. West Branch Ausable River The West Branch of the Ausable arises from the conjunction of the MacIntyre, South Meadow and Marcy Brooks, east of Mount Jo near the Adirondak Loj; it then runs northeast to Au Sable Forks (), and is fed by Lake Placid and the Chubb River along the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Essex County, New York
Essex County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,381. Its county seat is the hamlet of Elizabethtown. Its name is from the English county of Essex. Essex is one of only 2 counties that are entirely within the Adirondack Park, the other being Hamilton County. History When counties were established in the state of New York in 1683, the present Essex County was part of Albany County. This was an enormous county, including the northern part of New York state as well as all of the present state of Vermont and, in theory, extending westward to the Pacific Ocean. This county was reduced in size on July 3, 1766, by the creation of Cumberland County, and further on March 16, 1770, by the creation of Gloucester County, both containing territory now in Vermont. On March 12, 1772, what was left of Albany County was split into three parts, one remaining under the name Albany County. One of the other pieces, Charlotte County, contain ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jay Bridge, Jay, NY
A jay is a member of a number of species of medium-sized, usually colorful and noisy, passerine birds in the Crow family, Corvidae. The evolutionary relationships between the jays and the magpies are rather complex. For example, the Eurasian magpie seems more closely related to the Eurasian jay than to the East Asian blue and green magpies, whereas the blue jay is not closely related to either. Systematics and species Jays are not a monophyletic group. Anatomical and molecular evidence indicates they can be divided into an American and an Old World lineage (the latter including the ground jays and the piapiac), while the grey jays of the genus ''Perisoreus'' form a group of their own.http://www.nrm.se/download/18.4e32c81078a8d9249800021299/Corvidae%5B1%5D.pdf PDF fulltext The black magpies, formerly believed to be related to jays, are classified as treepies. Old World ("brown") jays Grey jays American jays In culture Slang The word ''jay'' has an archaic me ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jay Bridge
Jay Bridge is a wooden covered bridge that spans the east branch of the Ausable River in Jay, Essex County, New York, USA. It is eligible to be listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Of the 29 covered bridges in New York State, it and the Copeland Bridge in the town of Edinburg, Saratoga County are the only two situated in the Adirondacks. History The first bridge in this location was destroyed by flooding in 1856. The bridge was rebuilt in 1857 using a Howe truss design. In 1953, a heavy truck fell through the floor of the bridge; repair required the replacement of of the damaged end of the bridge. In 1997, traffic was rerouted to a new steel bridge just downstream. The original has since been restored for pedestrians and bicycles. See also *List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in New York (state) This is a list of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in the U.S. state of New York. Bridges See also * ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mill Brook (New York)
Mill Brook may refer to: United Kingdom * Mill Brook, Shropshire, a tributary of the River Rea, Shropshire in England United States * Mill Brook (Swift River tributary), a tributary of the Swift River in New Hampshire * First River, formerly known as ''Mill Brook'', a tributary of the Passaic River in New Jersey *Mill Brook (Pepacton Reservoir tributary), a river in Delaware and Ulster Counties, New York *Mill Brook (Unadilla River tributary), a river in Chenango County, New York * Mill Brook (West Canada Creek tributary), a river in Herkimer County, New York * Mill Brook community, historic community in Vermont See also *Mill Creek (other) Mill Creek or Millcreek may refer to: Communities Canada *Mill Creek, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, in the Cape Breton Regional Municipality *Mill Creek, Cumberland, Nova Scotia, in Cumberland country United States *Millcreek Township (disambigua ... * Millbrook (other) {{place name disambiguation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |