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Detail view of bridges underside. - Humpback Covered Bridge, Humpback Bridge Wayside Park, spanning Dunlap Creek, Covington, Covington, VA
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Boucher, Jack E.
Title
Detail view of bridges underside. - Humpback Covered Bridge, Humpback Bridge Wayside Park, spanning Dunlap Creek, Covington, Covington, VA
Description
James River and Kanawha Turnpike Company; Virginia Department of Transportation; Covington Business and Professional Women's Club; Pollak, Richard J, project manager; Federal Highway Administration, sponsor; Marston, Christopher, project manager; Christianson, Justine, transmitter
Depicted place Virginia; Covington; Covington
Date 1971
date QS:P571,+1971-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Accession number
HAER VA,3-COV.V,1-10
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Humpback Covered Bridge was built for the James River and Kanawha Turnpike and is one of the early turnpikes through the Alleghany region of Virginia. It is the oldest bridge in Virginia, and the older of only two surviving examples of a cambered wood covered bridge in the United States.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1
  • Survey number: HAER VA-1
  • Building/structure dates: 1857 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1954 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 69000219.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/va0239.photos.161268p
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Object location37° 48′ 08.53″ N, 80° 02′ 49.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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