Foundation For Kentucky's Lost Covered Bridges

 1862 Map of Garrard County Kentucky

 1862 Map of Lancaster Kentucky

This map was commissioned by Major General Buell of the Ohio Division of The Union Army, considered to be the most accurate of this time period.

From The Library of Congress Digital Map Collections

The Henry Bruce Covered Bridge

 

The Henry Bruce Covered bridge was on the Danville Pike. A newspaper article in the July 7th 1905 edition of  the Garrad Central Record in Lancaster Kentucky tells of a fire in the bridge caused by a thresher.

July 07 1905 issue of the Garrard Central Record relating the Henry Bruce covered Bridge

Newspaper article courtesy of  Garrard Central Record  and reproduced here with permission.

 

 

 

Covered Bridge Across Chaplin River

A lost covered bridge existed at one time across the Chaplin River in Garrard County. The lost covered bridge was a dual span bridge.

A picture can be viewed on Kentucky Virtual Library   here click back to get back to this site

Camp Nelson Covered Bridge

Camp Nelson Covered Bridge or Hickman Covered Bridge was built by Lewis Wernwag in

1907 newspaper article about War Dead buried at Hickman Bridge

1907 reply to dead union soldiers at Hickman Bridge

 

 

Two Bridges Over Dix River

National Tribune July 15, 1882 article telling of 2 lost covered bridges

From The Library of Congress Digital Collections