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Tabo Covered Bridge 25-54-01x
Description
The 1887 Lexington 125,000 map shows the road between Lexington and Dover crossing Tabo Creek in this approximate location.
Facts
- Overview
- Lost covered bridge over Tabo Creek on the Santa Fe Trail (now US 24), west of Dover
- Location
- Lafayette County, Missouri
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Washed away in 1928
- Design
- Covered Howe through truss
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.19032, -93.73696 (decimal degrees)
39°11'25" N, 93°44'13" W (degrees°minutes'seconds")
- Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/436356/4338155 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Dover
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 25-54-01x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 21846 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- August 10, 2014: Updated by Clark Vance: Mapped probable location
- April 10, 2006: Posted new photos
Sources
- "Covered Bridges: Sturdy Relics of Missouri" - Article by Haden Smith
in the Jan. 1980 issue of Missouri Historical Review (Vol. LXXIV, No. 2)
- Clark Vance - cvance [at] dogmail [dot] com