Historic American Covered Bridges - Hardcover
Portrays 138 historic covered bridges found in the United States and Canada, along with detailed truss diagrams, basic construction details, and pertinent facts and information on each bridge
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Brian J. McKee is president of the Ohio Historic Bridge Association and a member of several other covered bridge societies. He has collected thousands of photographs of covered bridges in North America. He resides in Marion, Ohio.
You don't have to be a fan of Robert James Waller to admire the covered bridges of the American Midwest. You'll learn from this heavily illustrated book how important those bridges were to rural communities; quite apart from spanning streams of water, they served as gathering places, even makeshift town halls and wedding parlors. You'll also learn that many of them are all but doomed to disappear in the face of "progress." The bridges were not originally confined to the Midwest, but many in the East are already gone; only one, for instance, survives in New Jersey. This book makes a quiet but powerful case for preserving those that remain. If you're a fan of Eric Sloane's books of rural Americana, you're sure to enjoy this excursion into the countryside.
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Brian J. McKee is president of the Ohio Historic Bridge Association and a member of several other covered bridge societies. He has collected thousands of photographs of covered bridges in North America. He resides in Marion, Ohio.
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- PublisherAmer Society of Civil Engineers
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0784401896
- ISBN 13 9780784401897
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages148
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