My Park It And Ride #2== Preserving the Past LbNA #52279 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Feb 21, 2010 |
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| City: | Colchester |
| County: | New London |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | The Maple Leafs  |
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| Found by: | Coyote304 |
| Last found: | Sep 17, 2017 |
| Status: | FFFaaaFFFFFFFFFFFaaa |
| Last edited: | Feb 21, 2010 |
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Preserving the Past
Covered Bridges
A Covered Bridge is a bridge, often single lane, with enclosed sides and a roof. They have been typically been made of wood due to the plentiful resources of wood. Bridges would only have had a life span of 9 years, until covering them extended their life span to more than 70 years. Covered Bridges had the reputation as meeting places for lovers, protecting nervous horses when crossing over a swift stream and as meeting places for men from villages and towns on both sides of the streams. Mainly associated with the 19th century, covered bridges often served as prominent local landmarks and have attracted historical preservation and of course, tourists. Today, covered bridges are threatened by arsonists, floods and vandals. Pennsylvania has the most covered bridges with over 200, and Vermont has the most covered bridges in a one square mile.
Besides PA and VT, other states with covered bridges are all the New England states (although RI’s last one was destroyed by fire several years ago), New York, Iowa, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Tennessee, Oregon, California, Indiana, Alabama, Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota. Canada and some countries in Europe and Asia have them too.
Covered Bridges are also in fiction books and movies: Sleepy Hollow, Beetle Juice, and The Bridges of Madison County.
Some Connecticut residents have private small covered bridges, but two good ones to visit in CT are The Comstock Bridge in Colchester/Westchester and The Cornwall Bridge in Cornwall.
My hobby is collecting pictures, photos, articles and postcards of Covered Bridges. It was challenging before, as friends and relatives who went on vacation would collect some for me, but now, with the Internet it makes it too easy to find all the information I had the fun of visiting….but I’m not complaining, as I can now see and get more information and pictures.
Clues and Directions: From the areas of Hartford and Colchester, both take Route 2 to exit 16 (Marlborough, Moodus, Route 149). At the end of the exit ramp, head toward the park and ride area on route 149 still near route 2 entrances. Upon entering the parking lot, go to the far right corner and you will find what you seek in one of the corner rails. Please be discreet as several people use this for parking, meeting and just turning around.
Box #1 of 2 boxes
Preserving the Past
Covered Bridges
A Covered Bridge is a bridge, often single lane, with enclosed sides and a roof. They have been typically been made of wood due to the plentiful resources of wood. Bridges would only have had a life span of 9 years, until covering them extended their life span to more than 70 years. Covered Bridges had the reputation as meeting places for lovers, protecting nervous horses when crossing over a swift stream and as meeting places for men from villages and towns on both sides of the streams. Mainly associated with the 19th century, covered bridges often served as prominent local landmarks and have attracted historical preservation and of course, tourists. Today, covered bridges are threatened by arsonists, floods and vandals. Pennsylvania has the most covered bridges with over 200, and Vermont has the most covered bridges in a one square mile.
Besides PA and VT, other states with covered bridges are all the New England states (although RI’s last one was destroyed by fire several years ago), New York, Iowa, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, North Carolina, Tennessee, Oregon, California, Indiana, Alabama, Ohio, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota. Canada and some countries in Europe and Asia have them too.
Covered Bridges are also in fiction books and movies: Sleepy Hollow, Beetle Juice, and The Bridges of Madison County.
Some Connecticut residents have private small covered bridges, but two good ones to visit in CT are The Comstock Bridge in Colchester/Westchester and The Cornwall Bridge in Cornwall.
My hobby is collecting pictures, photos, articles and postcards of Covered Bridges. It was challenging before, as friends and relatives who went on vacation would collect some for me, but now, with the Internet it makes it too easy to find all the information I had the fun of visiting….but I’m not complaining, as I can now see and get more information and pictures.
Clues and Directions: From the areas of Hartford and Colchester, both take Route 2 to exit 16 (Marlborough, Moodus, Route 149). At the end of the exit ramp, head toward the park and ride area on route 149 still near route 2 entrances. Upon entering the parking lot, go to the far right corner and you will find what you seek in one of the corner rails. Please be discreet as several people use this for parking, meeting and just turning around.