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Honey Run Covered Bridge was a wooden
The three-span wooden bridge was originally built uncovered, as evidenced by the timber trusses of the two original, remaining spans covered with sheet metal on three sides. The cover was added in 1901.
Crossing Butte Creek, the Honey Run Bridge was the only surviving example of a three-span timber Pratt-type covered bridge in the United States. It was listed on the
Honey Run Covered Bridge
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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 ...
crossing Butte Creek, in Butte County, northern California
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in the United States. It was located on Honey Run Road at Centerville Road, about halfway in between Chico and Paradise
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, until it was destroyed in the Camp Fire on November 8, 2018.
History
Built in 1886 and accepted as completed by the Butte County Board of Supervisors on January 3, 1887, the Honey Run Bridge (originally Carr Hill Bridge) was constructed by the American Bridge and Building Company of San Francisco. George Miller was appointed Superintendent of Construction by Butte County to oversee the project.
The three-span wooden bridge was originally built uncovered, as evidenced by the timber trusses of the two original, remaining spans covered with sheet metal on three sides. The cover was added in 1901.
Crossing Butte Creek, the Honey Run Bridge was the only surviving example of a three-span timber Pratt-type covered bridge in the United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places
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in 1988.
The bridge was open to vehicular traffic until a truck crashed into the eastern span and damaged it in 1965, thus making the bridge virtually impassable. A new steel bridge was built upstream for vehicular traffic.
The covered bridge was then used as a pedestrian footbridge
A footbridge (also a pedestrian bridge, pedestrian overpass, or pedestrian overcrossing) is a bridge designed solely for pedestrians.''Oxford English Dictionary'' While the primary meaning for a bridge is a structure which links "two points at a ...
, protected within Honey Run Covered Bridge County Park. Local residents raised funds and rebuilt the eastern span from the ruins, and the bridge re-opened in 1972.
It was destroyed by the Camp Fire on November 8, 2018. There is a possibility that Historic American Engineering Record
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documentation of the bridge could be used in its reconstruction.*
See also
*List of bridges documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in California
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See also
* List of tunnels documented by the Historic American Engineering Record in California
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*National Register of Historic Places listings in Butte County, California
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References
External links
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