Copeland Bridge, also known as Copeland Farm Bridge or Copeland Covered Bridge is a wooden
covered bridge
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 woo ...
over
Beecher Creek in the town of
Edinburg in
Saratoga County,
New York
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. It was built in 1879, and is a small, timber framed,
queenpost truss bridge
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with a gable roof. It has a 30-foot span carried on
fieldstone
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abutments.
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It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1998.
References
External links
Copeland Covered Bridge photos and more, at The Historical Marker Database
* ttp://www.coveredbridgesite.com/ny/copeland.html Copeland Bridge, at Covered Bridges of the Northeast USA
Covered bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Bridges completed in 1879
Wooden bridges in New York (state)
Tourist attractions in Saratoga County, New York
Bridges in Saratoga County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Saratoga County, New York
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Queen post truss bridges in the United States
1879 establishments in New York (state)
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