List of covered bridges in New York facts for kids
This is a list of covered bridges in New York State.
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation identifies 29 covered bridges in New York State as historic, but these are not all listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The New York Society of Covered Bridges lists 24 historic covered bridges.
One of the NRHPs, Old Blenheim Bridge, has further been declared to be a National Historic Landmark and also has described by a Historic American Engineering Record. It may be the longest single-span covered bridge in the United States or in the world.
24 identified by New York Society of Covered Bridges
(ordered by counties):
The following is a list of 24 of the historic New York State covered bridges.
Name | Image | Location |
Year Built | Length (ft) | Spans | Design and Historical Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Downsville Bridge | Delaware County | 1854 | 174 | East Branch of the Delaware River | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. | |
Fitches Bridge | Delaware County | 1870 | 100 | West Branch of the Delaware River | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. | |
Hamden Bridge | Delaware County | 1859 | 125 | West Branch of the Delaware River | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. | |
Lower Shavertown Bridge, or Campbell Bridge or Old Roscoe Bridge | Delaware County | 1877 | 32 | Trout Creek | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. | |
Tuscarora Club Bridge | Delaware County | 1870, rebuilt 2012 | 38 | Mill Brook | ||
Jay Bridge | Essex County | 1857 | 160 | Ausable River | ||
Salisbury Center Bridge | Herkimer County | 1875 | 50 | Spruce Creek | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. | |
Hyde Hall Bridge | Otsego County | 1825 | 53 | Shadow Brook | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. Located in Glimmerglass State Park. | |
Copeland Bridge | Saratoga County | 1879 | 35 | Beecher Creek | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. | |
Blenheim Bridge | Schoharie County | 1855, rebuilt 2018 | 232 | Schoharie Creek | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966 and National Historic Landmark in 1964. Destroyed on August 28, 2011, by Tropical Storm Irene. | |
Beaverkill Bridge, also known as Conklin Bridge | Sullivan County | 1865 | 98 | Beaver Kill | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. | |
Bendo Bridge, or Willowemoc Covered Bridge | Sullivan County | 1860 | 48 | Willowemoc Creek | ||
Halls Mills Bridge | Sullivan County | 1912 | 119 | Neversink River | ||
Van Tran Flat Bridge, formerly called the Mott's Flat Bridge and also known as the Livingston Manor Bridge | Sullivan County | 1860 | 117 | Willowemoc Creek | ||
Newfield Bridge | Tompkins County | 1853 | 115 | Cayuga Creek | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. | |
Ashokan Bridge, or New Paltz Campus Bridge or Turnwood Bridge | Ulster County | 1889 | 62 | Esopus Creek | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. | |
Forge Bridge | Ulster County | 1906 | 27 | Dry Brook | ||
Grants Mills Bridge | Ulster County | 1902 | 66 | Mill Brook | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. | |
Perrine's Bridge | Ulster County | 1844 | 138 | Wallkill River | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. | |
Tappan Bridge, or Kittle Bridge | Ulster County | 1906 | 43 | Dry Brook | ||
Buskirk Bridge | Washington County | 1857 | 164 | Hoosic River | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. | |
Eagleville Bridge | Washington County | 1858 | 101 | Battenkill | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. | |
Rexleigh Bridge | Washington County | 1874 | 107 | Battenkill | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. | |
Shushan Bridge | Washington County | 1858 | 161 | Battenkill | Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. |
18 identified by Peter Folk
More modern or otherwise not-as-authentic covered bridges in New York State also exist. Peter Folk lists the following 18 bridges:
- Waldbillig Bridge, in Albany County
- Voorheesville School Bridge, in Albany County
- Munson Bridge in Broome County
- Thomas E. Kelly Bridge in Cattaraugus County
- Erpf Bridge in Delaware County
- Fort Ticonderoga / Kissing Bridge, in Essex County
- Morehouse Bridge in Fulton County
- Old Forge Bridge in Herkimer County
- Frontenac or North Country Bridge, in Jefferson County
- Americana Village Bridge, in Madison County
- Roydhouse Bridge, in Oneida County, 42°53′43.74″N 75°18′2.45″W / 42.8954833°N 75.3006806°W
- Schoharie Bridge, in Schoharie County
- Ludlow Greens Bridge, in Suffolk County 40°56.55′N 72°17.47′W / 40.94250°N 72.29117°W
- Grahamsville Bridge, in Sullivan County
- Friendship Manor Bridge, in Ulster County
- Myers Bridge, in Ulster County
- Cambridge Bridge, in Washington County
- Granville Bridge, in Washington County
- Cannon Covered Bridge, in Wyoming County