General Information
| Other name(s): | Mooresville Covered Bridge; Mount Zion Covered Bridge |
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| Completion: | 1865 |
| Status: | destroyed (9 March 2021) |
Project Type
| Structure: |
Covered bridge |
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| Function / usage: |
Road bridge |
| Structure: |
Burr arch type truss bridge |
| Material: |
Timber bridge |
| Structure: |
Through truss bridge |
| Plan view: |
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| Support conditions: |
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Awards and Distinctions
| 1976 |
for registered users |
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Location
| Location: |
Mooresville, Washington County, Kentucky, USA |
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| Coordinates: | 37° 49' 40.86" N 85° 15' 23.18" W |
Technical Information
Dimensions
| span lengths | 2 x 31.1 m | |
| number of spans | 2 |
Materials
| truss |
wood
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Excerpt from Wikipedia
Mount Zion Covered Bridge was a 280 feet (85 m) long Burr truss covered bridge near Mooresville, Kentucky. It was built in 1871 and burned down in 2021. For 150 years it spanned the Little Beech Fork north of Mooresville on Kentucky Route 458.
The bridge had been closed to vehicular traffic when a new bridge was constructed beside it, but it remained a tourist attraction as the longest multi-span covered bridge in Kentucky.
Beech Fork, Mooresville, and Mount Zion were all accepted names for the bridge. Mount Zion appears to be the most used historic name. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Records from 1871 indicate it to be 280 feet long and 18 feet wide, but a measurement taken by Kentucky's Department of Transportation in the 1970s measured it at 211 feet.
During a 2015-2017 restoration of the bridge it was determined by the contractor, Arnold M. Graton Associates of Ashland, New Hampshire, that the arches were a very early modification to the bridge. As such, the bridge was reclassified as a Multiple Kingpost Truss with added arches.
It burned down on March 9th, 2021; suspected arson.
Text imported from Wikipedia article "Mount Zion Covered Bridge" and modified on November 15, 2021 according to the CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license.
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data sheet - Structure-ID
20006433 - Published on:
19/10/2002 - Last updated on:
21/12/2021
