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Coldwater Covered Bridge 01-08-01

Calhoun County, Alabama

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Coldwater Covered Bridge

Photo taken by C Hanchey in March 2009

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BH Photo #135998

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Facts 

Overview
Multiple Kingpost through truss bridge over inlet to Oxford Lake on Trail in Oxford
Location
Oxford, Calhoun County, Alabama
Status
Open to pedestrians
History
Built ca 1850 over Coldwater Creek; Relocated in 1990 to city park and placed over an outlet from Oxford Lake
Design
Multiple Kingpost through truss
Dimensions
Span length: 60.0 ft.
Total length: 60.0 ft.
Recognition
Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1973
Approximate latitude, longitude
+33.60748, -85.81659   (decimal degrees)
33°36'27" N, 85°48'60" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
16/609788/3719263 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
Oxford
Inventory numbers
NRHP 73000333 (National Register of Historic Places reference number)
BH 41877 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

19th Century (8,350)
Alabama (1,012)
Built 1850 (95)
Built during 1850s (484)
Calhoun County, Alabama (32)
Covered (1,932)
Multiple Kingpost truss (156)
NR-listed (3,013)
 Open to pedestrians (4,580)
Owned by city (6,081)
Oxford, Alabama (1)
Span length 50-75 feet (10,420)
Through truss (16,751)
Total length 50-75 feet (9,568)
Truss (35,423)

Update Log 

  • November 13, 2014: New photos from Ben Tate
  • February 21, 2012: New photo from marty mccary
  • March 25, 2009: Added by C Hanchey

Sources 

  • C Hanchey - cmh2315fl [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Wikipedia
  • marty mccary - marty [dot] mccary [at] yahoo [dot] com
  • Ben Tate - benji5221 [at] yahoo [dot] com

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