Kentucky is well recognized for bourbon, bluegrass and the Kentucky Derby. When thinking of covered bridges, the
Commonwealth is not the state that really comes to mind. Many of Kentucky's covered bridges were built by such men
as Wernwag, Bower, Carothers, Day, Stone and Long, but many of the builders' names were never recorded. Kentucky
was once home to the longest single-span wooden bridge in the world and to a covered bridge through which a Civil
War battle was fought. Time, arson, progress, neglect and misguided maintenance have spelled the demise of the
majority of these structures.
The book, "Kentucky's Covered Bridges" is long overdue as there has never been a book written of this kind that
focuses not only on the 13 covered bridges that are still standing in the Commonwealth but many of the bridges that
are no longer standing.
Kentucky once had over 700 documented covered bridges but today, only 13 remain standing. While many of these
bridges were never photographed or the photos were lost to time, this book contains over 200 photos of 110 of those
bridges. It reveals many never before seen vintage photographs of the bridges, as well as Melissa's photography of the
existing bridges.
The book also serves to dispel myths and misreported facts, such as the covered bridge in Butler, (Pendleton County),
being the longest in the world, which it was not, and that the King's Mill Covered Bridge is still on the bottom of Lake
Herrington, which it is not.
Kentucky's Covered Bridges
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