This is a partial list of wooden covered bridges in the U.S. state of Maine.
Bridges
editExtant
editName | Image | Location (in Maine) | Built | Length | Truss | Notes |
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Babb's Bridge | South Windham | 1864, 1976 | 79 feet (24 m) | Queen | Original bridge was burned by vandals in 1973. An exact replica was constructed and opened to traffic in 1976. | |
Hemlock Bridge | Fryeburg | 1857 | 109 feet (33 m) | Paddleford truss with arch | Is remote, far down on Hemlock Bridge Road at the end of Frog Alley Road (a seasonal road gated in winter), off Route 5 North. Car and foot traffic. | |
Lowes Bridge | Guilford-Sangerville | 1857, 1990 | 146 feet (45 m) | Long | Washed away by the flood of April 1, 1987. A modern covered bridge, patterned after the original, was built on the original abutments in 1990. | |
Robyville Bridge | Corinth | 1876 | 73 feet (22 m) | Long | Only completely shingled covered bridge in the State. | |
Bennett Bridge | Lincoln Plantation | 1901 | 93 feet (28 m) | Paddleford truss | Spans the Magalloway River. | |
Lovejoy Bridge | Andover | 1868 | 70 feet (21 m) | Paddleford truss | Spans the Ellis River and is Maine's shortest covered bridge. | |
Porter-Parsonfield Bridge | Porter | 1859 | 160 feet (49 m) | Paddleford truss | Built by the towns of Porter and Parsonfield as a joint project over the Ossipee River and was refurbished in 1999. It runs parallel to Route 160 just below Porter. Foot traffic only. | |
Sunday River Bridge | Newry | 1872 | 99 feet (30 m) | Paddleford truss | Named the Artist's Bridge because of its reputation as being the most photographed and painted of the venerable covered bridges in Maine. | |
Trout Brook Bridge | Alna | 2018 | 47 feet (14 m) | Boxed pony Howe | After a New Hampshire covered bridge was burned by vandals, a covered bridge preservation group acquired the remains of the bridge and used them to erect the Trout Brook Bridge[1] |
Former
editName | Image | Location (in Maine) | Built | Length | Truss | Notes |
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Union Falls Bridge | Dayton | 1860 | 112 feet
(34 m) |
Unknown | A covered bridge built at Union Falls, a village that used to be in Dayton. It was blown up in 1921.[2] | |
Watson Settlement Bridge | Littleton | 1911 | 170 feet (52 m) | Howe | Farthest north and the youngest of Maine's original covered bridges. Destroyed by fire on July 19, 2021.[3] |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges". www.coveredbridgesociety.org. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ "Union Falls, Old & New". BHHS Newsletter. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
- ^ "Updates to the 2009 World Guide to Covered Bridges" (PDF). National Society for Preservation of Covered Bridges. 20 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- Caswell, William S. World Guide to Covered Bridges (2021 ed.). Concord, New Hampshire: National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges. pp. 35–37. ISBN 978-0-578-30263-8.
External links
editWikimedia Commons has media related to Covered bridges in Maine.
- National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges
- Maine Tourism article about the state's covered bridges