Kentucky's Covered Bridges (KY) (Images of America)

Jurgensen is a Louisville native. Laughlin, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a native of Frankfort. About the Author Robert W. He graduated from Frankfort High School and the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning. M. . Melissa C. She is a legal secretary, photographer, and the webmaster of KyCoveredBridges

Melissa C. . He graduated from Frankfort High School and the University of Cincinnati College of Design, Art, Architecture, and Planning. Laughlin, of Cincinnati, Ohio, is a native of Frankfort. Robert W. Jurgensen is a Louisville native. She is a legal secretary, photographer, and the webmaster of KyCoveredBridges. M

"Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Very happy with book.. Pam Holloway said Love covered bridges. I was pleased with this purchase. I photograph covered bridges and love to heard the history of them. I have also visited one or two that were haunted, which makes the history of the bridge necessary. This book explains how the bridges were made and what happ. "Good book with excellent photos" according to Craig A.. It is a good book with lots of great early photos of Kentucky's Covered Bridges. Of special interest are the bridges that are no longer standing.

Many of Kentucky’s covered bridges were built by such men as Wernwag, Bower, Carothers, Day, Stone, and Long, but many of the names were never recorded or have been lost to time. Kentucky is well recognized for bourbon, bluegrass, and the Kentucky Derby. When thinking of covered bridges, the commonwealth is not the state that readily comes to mind. Kentucky once was home to the longest single-span wooden bridge in the world and to a covered bridge through which a Civil War battle was fought. Readers of this volume might be surprised to learn that Kentucky once claimed more than 700 timbered tunnels and that over 50 of these survived well into the 1950s. Equally surprising, the commonwealth is still home to 13 of these structures.. Time, arson, progress, neglect, and misguided maintenance have spelled the demise of the majority of these structures