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As many as 15,000 covered bridges were built in North America over the past 200 years. Fewer than 1,000 remain. In Americas Covered Bridges, authors Terry E. Miller and Ronald G. Knapp tell the fascinating story of these bridges, how they were built, the technological breakthroughs required to construct them and above all the dedication and skill of their builders. Each wooden bridge, whether still standing or long gone, has a story to tell about the nature of America at the timenot only about its transportational needs, but the availability of materials and the technological prowess of the people who built it. Illustrated with some 550 historical and contemporary photos, paintings, and technical drawings of nearly 400 different covered bridges, Americas Covered Bridges offers five readable chapters on the history, design and fate of Americas covered bridges, plus related bridges in Canada. Most of the contemporary photography is by master photographer A. Chester Ong of Hong Kong.55 photo essays on the most iconic bridges including: Cornish-Windsor Bridge between Vermont and New Hampshire Porter-Parsonsfield Bridge, Maine East Paden and West Paden (Twin Bridges), PennsylvaniaPhilippi Bridge, West VirginiaHortons Mill Bridge, AlabamaMedora Bridge, IndianaRock Mill Bridge, OhioKnights Ferry Bridge, CaliforniaPerrault Bridge, Quebec, CanadaHartland Bridge, New Brunswick, Canada Over time, wooden bridges eventually gave way to ones made of iron, steel and concrete. An American icon, many covered bridges became obsolete and were replacedothers simply decayed and collapsed. Many more were swept away by natural disasters and fires. Americas Covered Bridges is absolutely packed with fascinating stories and information passionately told by two leading experts on this subject. The book will be of tremendous interest to anyone interested in American history, carpentry and technological change.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Few authors write in a vacuum. Even the best informed are wise to consult with associates and friends who may in fact know much more and often save such authors from embarrassment. This adage has been particularly true in the case of Americas Covered Bridges . A great many individuals have contributed knowledge, corrections, photographs, and helpful suggestions. Although we risk inadvertently leaving someone out, we nonetheless wish to acknowledge the immense help we have gotten from so many individuals.
We are particularly grateful to Joseph D. Conwill of Rangeley, Maine, a noted author of books and articles on covered bridges, a skilled photographer, and the long-time editor of Covered Bridge Topics . Conwills knowledge of bridges is exceptional, and he willingly shared this with us. In addition, he read much of the draft, making essential corrections. Nonetheless, any errors that have survived the editorial process remain our responsibility.
Bill Caswell, co-creator of could not have been produced. We are grateful also for his confirming both location and numbers of all covered bridges in the United States and Canada as of August 1, 2013.
We also appreciate our many consultations with two long-time Ohio colleagues, Miriam F. Wood, a founding member of the Ohio Historic Bridge Association and also its Historian, and David A. Simmons of the Ohio Historical Society and President of the Ohio Historic Bridge Association.
In addition, we wish to acknowledge the generosity of the following individuals and institutions for their responsiveness to our requests for information and images. If we have inadvertently omitted anyone, please accept our apologies for this unintended oversight.
Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama
Alaska State Library, Juneau, Alaska
Randy Allan, historian, Beverly, West Virginia
Grald Arbour, researcher and author on Qubecs covered bridges, Montreal, Qubec, Canada
Ashtabula County Convention & Visitors Bureau
Myrtle Auvill, bridge historian, West Virginia
Debra Basham, West Virginia State Archives, Charleston, West Virginia
Pierre Bgin, Mayor, Notre-Dame-des-Pins, Qubec, Canada
Beverly, Massachusetts Historical Society
Bibliothque et Archives Nationales Qubec, Canada
Billie Creek Village, Rockville, Indiana
Blue Ridge Timberwrights, Christiansburg, Virginia
Patricia Boulos, Boston Athenaeum, Boston, Massachusetts
Brian Bollinger, Belmont, New Hampshire
Karen Bratton, Douglas County Museum, Roseburg, Oregon
The Bridgeman Art Library, New York, New York
The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Gregory Campbell, librarian, Woodstock, New Brunswick, Canada
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Anne Cloyd Cassens, photographer, Edgemont, South Dakota
Philip S. C. Caston, specialist in German covered bridges, Neubrandenburg, Germany
John H. Diehl, founder of the Ohio Covered Bridge Committee, Cincinnati, Ohio
Gerald Dyck, Assonet, Massachusetts
Encore Editions, New Hope, Pennsylvania
Steven Engerrand, Georgia Archives, Morrow, Georgia
Shirley Felter, photographer, Blenheim, New York
Martha Capwell Fox, National Canal Museum, Easton, Pennsylvania
Paul Giguere, Maine Department of Transportation
James R. Gnagy Jr, covered bridge photographer, Canton, Ohio
Jennie Munger Gregory Memorial Museum, Ashtabula, Ohio
Martha Haithcock, Randolph County Public Library, Asheboro, North Carolina
Gregory S. Hamilton, photographer, Hebron, Ohio
Michelle Hammer, Harpers Ferry National Historic Park Library, West Virginia
Susan Hammond, photographer, Chester, Vermont
Hawaii State Archives, Honolulu, Hawaii
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), Washington, DC
Michele Houston, Pioneer Engineers Club of Indiana, Rushville, Indiana
Ove Jensen, Park Ranger, Historian, Horseshoe Bend National Military Park, Daviston, Alabama
Claire Dunne Johnson, St. Johnsbury, Vermont (posthumous)
Trish Kane, Collections Curator, Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Resource Center, Oxford, New York and co-founder of www.lostbridges.com
Doris Kennedy, historian, Hartland, New Brunswick, Canada
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