Yatesville Covered Bridge
Yatesville Covered Bridge | |
38°08′41″N 82°41′05″W / 38.14472°N 82.68472°W / 38.14472; -82.68472 (Yatesville Covered Bridge) | |
Area | 2 acres (0.81 ha) |
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Built | 1907 |
Architectural style | Howe Truss |
NRHP reference No. | 76000910[1] |
Added to NRHP | March 26, 1976 |
The Yatesville Covered Bridge, in Lawrence County, Kentucky near Fallsburg, was built in 1907 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1]
It was a 128 feet (39 m) single-span Howe truss bridge over Blaine Creek, located about 1,000 yards (0.91 km) off Yatesville Road, near the Kentucky border. It had board-and-batten siding open at the top under the eaves of the structure, and a corrugated tin roof.
As of the NRHP listing in 1976, there was a "pulleyed steel sedan" about 25 yards (23 m) to the south, and the bridge was closed to vehicular traffic.[2] While there were other beliefs about its function, the cable car system was in fact for U.S. Geological Survey measurement of flow rates of the creek.[3]
The bridge no longer exists.[4]
It was the last-surviving of three known covered bridges in Lawrence County, and was saved from demolition in 1965 by a letter-writing campaign. It was bypassed, repaired, and painted red. However, in May 1986 the bridge collapsed and its remains were removed by the county.[3]
References
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Yatesville Covered Bridge". National Park Service. Retrieved May 8, 2018. With accompanying photo from 1971 (with cable car adjacent), and map
- ^ a b Robert W. M. Laughlin; Melissa C. Jurgensen (2007). Kentucky's Covered Bridges. Arcadia Publishing. pp. 120–21. ISBN 9780738544045. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
- ^ "Yatesville Covered Bridge". LandmarkHunter. Retrieved May 8, 2018.
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