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Cabin Creek Covered Bridge

Lewis County, Kentucky
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Photo taken by Bill Eichelberger in October 2008

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Overview
Multiple Kingpost through truss bridge over Cabin Creek in Rectorville
Location
Rectorville, Lewis County, Kentucky
Status
Closed to all traffic
History
Arches & tension rods added by Louis Bower in 1912. This has caused the bridge has to be mistakenly identified as a Childs truss. Structural steel buttress was added around 1978. Bypassed in 1983.
Design
Multiple Kingpost through truss
Dimensions
Span length: 114.0 ft.
Total length: 114.0 ft.
Also called
C. F. Ferguson Farm
Mackey - Hughes Farm
Jones Farm
Approximate latitude, longitude
+38.60950, -83.62130   (decimal degrees)
38°36'34" N, 83°37'17" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
17/271756/4276703 (zone/easting/northing)
USGS topographic map
Tollesboro
Inventory number
BH 37624 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Closed (2,071)
Covered (925)
Kentucky (671)
Lewis County, Kentucky (5)
Multiple Kingpost truss (91)
Rectorville, Kentucky (1)
Span length 100-125 feet (3,299)
Through truss (9,205)
Total length 100-125 feet (3,633)
Truss (23,568)

Update Log 

  • September 30, 2012: New photo from james back
  • March 30, 2010: New photos from Bill Eichelberger
  • February 16, 2010: Updated by Bill Eichelberger: Added GPS coordinates.
  • October 31, 2008: New photos from Bill Eichelberger
  • October 24, 2008: New photo from Bill Eichelberger
  • October 15, 2008: Added by Bill Eichelberger

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Cabin Creek Covered Bridge
Posted September 30, 2012, by Bill Eichelberger (wallyum [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Believe it or not, it got worse. They got that restoration truss in just in time.

Cabin Creek Covered Bridge
Posted December 24, 2009, by james back (back154 [at] setel [dot] com)

i visited this bridge in 2004 and it looked then like it was ready to collapse any time.

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Cabin Creek covered bridge
Posted September 6, 2009, by Ruth Plencner (SundanceRuth [at] comcast [dot] net)

Please fix up this covered bridge. Someone should get the county to repair it. If they don't it could fall to pieces. How sad that would be. Or maybe the Covered Bridge society could repair it. I hope someone repairs it.

Ruth

Cabin Creek covered bridge
Posted October 31, 2008, by Bill Eichelberger (wallyum [at] hotmail [dot] com)

Couldn't find this bridge yesterday, so I went back this morning and drove the roads of Lewis and Mason counties until I found it. Based on what I saw, I fully expect the covered bridge population in Kentucky to be down to 12 before long. Cabin Creek bridge is in horrible shape and looks to have been forgotten. Several of the concrete piers that helped to support it have been washed out and the steel beam that sat on them has been torn from beneath the bridge and bent badly. Some effort has been made to provide additional support, but unless a full scale restoration is undertaken, the Cabin Creek bridge seems doomed.