Covered Bridge (Cedarburg, Wisconsin)
43.337753 - 88.0049222Koordinaten: 43 ° 20 ' 15.9 "N, 88 ° 0' 17.7 " W
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Cedar Creek
The Covered Bridge (originally: Red Bridge ) is a covered wooden bridge in the Town of Cedarburg in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin in the United States. She is one of the last remaining covered bridges in the state in which it once gave about forty of such structures. The bridge was originally built in 1876 to cross the Cedar Creek. It has a length of 36.5 m and is made of pine with diagonal bars of oak. In 1973, the building on the National Register of Historic Places was recorded. It is only used by pedestrians.
History
The bridge was built in 1876 after several farmers had filed a petition in the area. It was built as a permanent replacement for several previously located at this point bridges that were swept away by floods. 1927 was added to make the bridge for heavier vehicles to drive, which had not existed at the time of its construction in the middle of building a pillar. The Ozaukee County Board took over in 1940, the preservation and maintenance of the building.
1960 bought the Ozaukee County the bridge and they. Surrounding land for $ 7500 and established the Covered Bridge County Park
After nearly a century of continuous use, the bridge began to suffer under the heavy vehicle traffic, and the planks broke away. It was decided that was the only way of preserving the structure in reducing the load to be carried. 1962 decided the body responsible for the maintenance of the parks commission, the bridge of their original abutments about 15 meters to put towards the east, where they could be used only by pedestrians. A new bridge was built instead, just a few meters west of the old building. This new bridge is now used for motor traffic on the Covered Bridge Road. The old bridge structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 14, 1973.
Building
The Covered Bridge leads in an aligned approximately north-south position on the Cedar Creek. It is made of a timber girder bridge, which originally had a length of 36.5 m. It has a width of 5.2 m and a height of approximately 5.5 m, measured from the top of the abutment to the ridge of the roof. Inside the vertical clearance is between the planks and the top edges of the knee leg around 4 m.
The building was built with lumber from oak and pine, which was prefabricated near Baraboo, Wisconsin. The latticework is quite large dimensions, cut from oak and has been put together without using nails or screws. Instead, there are the Längspfetten from three to ten inches (7.5 cm x 25.5 cm ) bar with rounded oak plugs having a diameter of two inches ( 5 cm) are fixed to the Längspträgern. Measure the diagonal bars four to seven inches ( 11 cm x 19 cm) and are journalled with Längspfetten and two two -inch ( 5 x 5 cm) secured measured oak wedges. The boards used for the panels on the sides and ends are twelve inches (30.5 cm) wide and one inch ( 2.54 cm) thick, and the shocks are from one to four inches (2.54 cm x 11cm ) measured slats covered.
In the roof is a shingle roof made of pine wood, which over three to four inches (7.5 cm x 11) measured rafters spaced 30 to 36 inches was placed (70 to 90 cm).
The floor beams measure six to eight inches (16 cm x 21 cm) and carry upended, tightly packed laid wooden beams that measure two to four inches (5 x 11 cm) and form the roadway. The inside of the bridge has a wheel guard which extends about one foot ( 30 cm) above the road surface.
The abutments of the bridge are brick with white mortar from fieldstone. They are below the bridge deck 5.1 m wide and wide at its base to 5.5 m. The central pillar was also originally built of field stones, but was replaced sometime before 1937 by a concrete pillar.
Plaque and historical markers
The Port Washington Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution brought to the bridge on a plaque, with which the building is referred to as the "last covered bridge in Wisconsin " and the annual figures are given in 1876 and 1955. 1965 pile was built with a panel by the Ozaukee County Historical Society before the bridge, whose inscription also indicates that it is the "last covered bridge " Wisconsin that these built in 1876 and 1962 " shut down " was.
Replica
A replica of the bridge with the name Springwater Volunteer Bridge was built in 1997 in Waushara County, Wisconsin.