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Millport Covered Bridge

Knox County, Missouri
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These family photos were submitted by Rita Farris

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Facts 

Overview
Lost covered bridge over Middle Fork Fabius River at Millport
Location
Knox County, Missouri
Status
No longer exists
History
Built 1872 by William Hudson; collapsed ca. 1954 and replaced by a pony truss bridge
Design
Howe through truss covered bridge
Dimensions
Span length: 110.0 ft.
Total length: 110.0 ft.
Approximate latitude, longitude
+40.27056, -92.09167   (decimal degrees)
40°16'14" N, 92°05'30" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/577228/4458182 (zone/easting/northing)
Land survey
T. 63 N., R. 11 W., Sec. 14
Elevation
660 ft. above sea level
USGS topographic map
Rutledge
Inventory number
BH 21801 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (3,820)
Built 1872 (41)
Built during 1870s (544)
Collapsed (74)
Covered (925)
Howe through truss (203)
Howe truss (249)
 Knox County, Missouri (58)
Lost (10,361)
Lost during 1950s (103)
Missouri (4,522)
Through truss (9,205)
Total length 100-125 feet (3,633)
Truss (23,568)

Update Log 

  • November 28, 2005: Posted family photos from Rita Farris

Sources 

  • Rita Farris - rkpalomo [at] hotmail [dot] com
  • "Missouri's Covered Bridges" - Article by Dorothy Caldwell in the Jan. 1967 issue of Missouri Historical Review (Vol. LXI, No. 2)
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Millport Covered Bridge
Posted February 12, 2007, by brett lowe (brettlowe48 [at] yahoo [dot] com)

My grandpa Kenneth Lowe had these same exact pictures in his house.I found them after he passed on.I find this kind of stuff pretty cool because my family came from rutledge,Missouri.