Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide - Softcover

Benjamin D. Evans; June Evans

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822955040 ISBN 13: 9780822955047

Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd), 1994

Synopsis

Historically, bridges were covered to protect their wooden surfaces from the weather. Today, covered bridges are viewed as charming but rare artifacts of our past. Pennsylvania, the site of the first covered bridge in the United States (over the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia), is the state with the most surviving structures.

Benjamin and June Evans visited every bridge for this updated edition, taking new photographs and noting changes since the writing of their 1991 first edition. The builder's name, truss type and number of spans, the condition, length, and width, current owner, and waterway it crosses, specific location, and precise travel directions to each structure are all outlined for each of the 220 bridges documented in this new edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Evans was District Music Coordinator and teacher of music for the Southern Lehigh School District.

BENJAMIN D. EVANS and JUNE R. EVANS are the authors of Pennsylvania's Covered Bridges: A Complete Guide (1993). Long-time covered-bridge aficionados, they are co-editors of Pennsylvania Crossings, the newsletter of The Theodore Burr Covered Bridge Society of Pennsylvania, Inc. They are also members of covered bridge societies in several other eastern states including the Vermont Covered Bridge Society and the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges.

Review:

“Criss-crossing the length and breadth of Pennsylvania, the authors visited every one of the 221 remaining covered bridges in the summer of 2000, taking new photographs and noting changes that had taken place since 1993, the year they published their guidebook’s first edition. An indispensable guide for anyone wanting to tour these historical structures, Pennsylvania’s Covered Bridges is superbly illustrated with color photographs of each bridge, while the text provides location and historical data.”
--The Midwest Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr (Trd)
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0822955040
• ISBN 13: 9780822955047
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256