A Bridge With A House... Oregon's Covered Bridge

A Bridge With A House... Oregon's Covered Bridge

Author: Steven E. Hunnicutt

Publisher: Book Venture Publishing LLC

Published: 2017-11-30

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 164166276X

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This book is a coffee table book that showcases the Covered Bridges of Oregon. If you’re looking for a book on Oregon Covered Bridges this is the one. This book has eight by ten colored pictures of all the bridges, it provides a brief description and history of the bridges. This book was done in order to showcase our bridges, directions have been provided.


Oregon's Covered Bridges

Oregon's Covered Bridges

Author: Bill Cockrell

Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781531637385

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Rugged individuals armed with hand tools, sweat, and ambition began building covered bridges in Oregon during the mid-1850s. These bridge builders often camped out at remote sites, living off the land or contracting with local farmers for food. Early owners of covered bridges financed construction by charging tolls--3cents for a sheep, 5cents for a horse and rider, and 10cents for a team of horses and wagon. In the early 20th century, the state provided standard bridge and truss designs to each county, and most of the resulting structures incorporated the Howe truss. With the abundance of Douglas fir and the shortage of steel during the world wars, the construction of wooden covered bridges continued well into the 1950s, mainly in the Willamette Valley. During the 1920s, Oregon boasted more than 350 covered


Covered Bridges

Covered Bridges

Author: Joseph D Conwill

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-09-10

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 1784420115

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Covered Bridges are historic pieces of American and Canadian rural history, gracing the countryside from Oregon to Tennessee and from California to New Brunswick and across Canada. In this lavishly illustrated volume Joseph D. Conwill recounts the rich, romantic history of covered bridges as they developed from early timber bridges, born out of the traditions of Medieval times, into modernized structures designed for the motorized traffic of the early twentieth century. Reflecting on the efforts to keep covered bridges in service as the face of the rural landscape is transformed, and the challenge of preserving their historic character while making them safe for modern traffic, Conwill guides the reader across the diverse range of covered bridges to be found throughout the North America.


A Bridge with a House... a Covered Bridge

A Bridge with a House... a Covered Bridge

Author: Steven E Hunnicutt

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-03

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781479791521

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Oregon Covered Bridges is one such project. For my wife and I we just took day trips and visited covered bridges in our area, soon it grew and became a journey. It started in October 2004 visiting the coverered bridgs of Cottage Grove and ended with a visit to Cedar Crossing in February2007. The project turn to this book, a quick view of the bridges, the history, facts of covered bridges. Many people leave their state to take a vacation, never really seeing where they live, this book is a reminder that we here in Oregon have a lot and should be seen. It is also a chance to bring visitors to our state, to see these covered bridges. There on the backroads and these roads really show off Oregon. It is a "Coffee Table" book, pick up and enjoy the pictures, the reading is light. Need to "Stop and Smell the Roses", take a break from this fast pace life, this is what this book was meant to do.