Oldtown Covered Bridge is a covered Burr arch truss that carried Frazer Branch Road across the Little Sandy River near Oldtown in Greenup County, Kentucky.
Oldtown Covered Bridge is a covered Burr arch truss that carried Frazer Branch Road across the Little Sandy River near Oldtown in Greenup County, Kentucky. It was constructed in 1880 at the cost of $4,000, 1 2 3 4 5 with commissioners J. C. Irvin, John Conley, and W. A. Warmack in charge of the project.
Oldtown Covered Bridge was restored as a Green Thumb project in 1972-73 4 5 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 4 It was again restored in the late 1990s.
Information
- State: Kentucky
- Type: Covered Burr Arch truss
- Status: Active - Pedestrian
- Total Length: 187 feet
- Main Span Length: 145 feet
- Spans: 41 feet
- Deck Width: 14.9 feet
- Roadway Width: 13.8 feet
- Total Height: 14 feet
- Navigational Clearance:
Sources
- ‘Oldtown Bridge.’ University of Kentucky.
- Hultgren, John. ‘Oldtown Covered Bridge.’ October 14, 2004.
- ‘Kentucky’s Covered Bridges.’ Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives July 1, 2005.
- ‘Oldtown Covered Bridge.’ Signs of History.
- White, Vernon. Covered Bridges: Focus on Kentucky. Kentucke Imprints, 1985, pp. 81-85.