anyone from W.V.?

[seedcorn]

R all the states preserving them? Indiana is as well

 

[journey11]

Maybe it was to give travelers a place to get out of the rain? Everybody would have been driving horse and wagon when they were built.

 

[thistlebloom]

I always thought it was to keep the footing good. Bridges ice up much faster than regular dirt roads would. ??

 

[PhilaGardener]

Mostly to help protect the wooden bridge structure from the weather, I was always told. When bridges changed over to iron, the covers went away.

 

[Nyboy]

Are any still in use ?

 

[seedcorn]

Not here

 

[journey11]

We have one that was moved in the '80 to it's present location at a park, crossing from one side of a pond to another. People rent it for weddings, no traffic across it other than foot traffic.

 

[PhilaGardener]

Quite a few are preserved in PA
http://www.pacoveredbridges.com/

and New England
http://www.discovernewengland.org/things-do/new-englands-romantic-covered-bridges

 

[Nyboy]

Interesting cover made bridge look like barn so animals will not be afraid to enter

 

[so lucky]

We have one about 10 miles from us, Bollinger Mill State Park. It's over a river that ran an old grain mill, pre-civil war, I think. Very interesting in the mill, they still have all the old machinery set up.