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Covered bridges have become a thing of the past. New Jersey has just two – Scarborough Bridge in Cherry Hill (1959) and Green Sergeant’s Covered Bridge near Stockton (1872).
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A century and a half ago, the covered bridge was a ubiquitous part of the nation’s landscape. Over the decades, fire, flood and progress have destroyed more than 90% of them. Take a virtual tour of some of the state's past and present covered bridges while learning about their designs, the craftsmen who built them, how the bridges met their demise, and the efforts to preserve the state’s last remaining historic covered bridge.
Presenter: Bill Caswell is a native of Narragansett, Rhode Island. He attended the University of Rhode Island where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1984. Since college, he has been employed as a civil engineer at the New Hampshire Department of Transportation. Being new to New Hampshire, Caswell's first supervisor at NHDOT suggested visiting the state’s covered bridges. The craftsmanship of those structures combined with his life-long interest in history set his future on a new path. Since 1984, he and his wife Jennifer have visited most of the standing covered bridges in the United States and Canada. In 2002, he co founded a research project to document the past and present covered bridges of the United States and Canada. The "Covered Spans of Yesteryear" presently documents over 14,000 covered and uncovered wood truss bridges. He is co-author of the "World Guide to Covered Bridges" (2009) and author of "Connecticut and Rhode Island Covered Bridges" (2011). Caswell is actively involved in a number of covered bridge organizations. He has served as the newsletter editor, historian, vice president and, since 2014, president of the National Society for the Preservation of Covered Bridges.
At the conclusion of the program please feel free to take a brief online survey here:
https://www.projectoutcome.org/responses/57286
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