List Of West Virginia Covered Bridges

This is a list of West Virginia covered bridges. There are 17 historic wooden covered bridges in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Only three of these bridges were built before 1870 and they are the three longest in the state. Each uses a standard truss design, braced with the Burr Arch. No one-truss design dominates in the state. The bridges are located in three general areas. In the south in Monroe and Greenbrier counties there are about a half dozen bridges within an easy drive of one another. To the north around Philippi is another group of bridges, including the historic Philippi Covered Bridge which is the longest () and an important part of state history for its associations with the American Civil War.West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer, DeLorme Publishing; 3rd edition (2003), pg 13

Existing bridges

The following is a list of the 17 extant West Virginia covered bridges.

Former bridges

The following is a list of no longer extant West Virginia covered bridges. A ''complete'' list of covered bridges that have existed at one time or another in the state would exceed 100.

;Barbour County
* Audra Covered Bridge, 18??, Audra (Burnt, 1940s)

;Braxton County
* Bulltown Covered Bridge, 1854

;Doddridge County
* West Union Covered Bridge, 1843 across Middle Island Creek (Destroyed in flood, June 1950).

;Greenbrier County
* Greenbrier Covered Bridge, 18??, across Greenbrier River; near Lewisburg

;Harrison County
* Maulsby Covered Bridge, 1848, across West Fork River (part of Weston and Fairmont Turnpike Company)

;Lewis County
* Weston Covered Bridge, 18??, across Stonecoal Creek, (Chenoweth; destroyed).

;Marion County
* Paw Paw Creek Covered Bridge, 18??, Grant Town (Destroyed in flood, August 1980)

;Monongalia County
*Wadestown Covered Bridge, 18??, across the West Virginia branch of Dunkard Creek.

;Preston County
* Cheat River Covered Bridge (aka Northwestern Turnpike, or Tygart Valley, Bridge), 1835, across Cheat River near Rowlesburg (Burnt, 1964)

;Randolph County
*Beverly Covered Bridge, 1845, Chenoweth's first bridge (destroyed ''ca.'' 1863); part of the Staunton and Parkersburg Turnpike; rebuilt by Chenoweth (1872–73; destroyed again after 1952).
* Cheat Bridge Covered Bridge, 1841, across Cheat River at Cheat Bridge (Removed, 1910)

;Randolph/Upshur Counties
*Middle Fork Covered Bridge, 18??, across Middle Fork River spanning county border (Chenoweth; destroyed).

;Taylor County
*Valley Bridge, 1834, across Tygart Valley River (part of the Northwestern Turnpike) at Fetterman (Destroyed in flood, 1888).Snider, Joseph Franklin (1945)
"The Early History of Grafton"
''Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports''. 7362. (Master's thesis for West Virginia University), pp 2-3.

;Upshur County
* Buckhannon Covered Bridge, 18?? (Chenoweth; destroyed).

See also

* List of bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in West Virginia
* World Guide to Covered Bridges

References

Citations

Further reading

*Auvil, Myrtle (1973), ''Covered Bridges of West Virginia Past & Present''

*Maxwell, Hu (1899), ''The History of Barbour County, West Virginia; page 277, The Philippi Bridge''

Notes

* Sorting this column will result in bridges being listed in order by county.

External links

Covered Spans of Yesteryear projectWest Virginia Tourism
article about the state's covered bridges

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