The Cornish-Windsor Bridge stretches 450 feet across the Connecticut River, making it the country’s longest wooden covered bridge. Pieces of the span were laid out in a field in Windsor by builders ...

COWLESVILLE, N.Y. — It isn't too often a new covered wooden bridge is built. But to replace a steel bridge on Schoellkopf Road in Cowlesville that was built in 1930, engineers went with wood. "When ...

SEYMOUR – Officials are blaming inferior wood obtained by a contractor for the little progress being made on a $1 million preservation project for a 19th-century covered bridge in south-central ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Covered bridges have long been a staple throughout the Northeast. According to the New York State Covered Bridge Society, New York was once home to over 300 covered bridges.

WOODSTOCK, Vt. — Like kaleidoscopic autumn leaves, the snow-flecked mountaintops of Maine, and the pounding summertime surf on Cape Cod, they are cherished emblems of New England. Beloved old bridges ...

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Mich. (WSBT) — Michigan’s oldest remaining wooden covered bridge is still closed. The bridge was closed after height limiters on both ends were damaged on the Langley Covered Bridge ...

The historic 120-year old covered bridge in Long Grove reached another milestone of sorts earlier this month when a U-Haul truck slammed into its wooden canopy. The accident marked the 30th time a ...

FOSTER – Even now, 30 years later, John Neale gets goosebumps explaining how town residents came together to build Rhode Island’s only covered bridge over a public road – then built it again with even ...

In the 1800s, builders in the United States began putting roofs on bridges to protect the wooden floors and trusses from the elements. It was easier and less expensive to maintain the covers than the ...