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Paris Covered Bridge 25-69-04x
Facts
- Overview
- Lost 100-ft covered bridge over Middle Fork Salt River at Paris
- Location
- Paris, Monroe County, Missouri
- Status
- No longer exists
- History
- Completed ca. 1858 for $5,000 by Joseph C. Elliott; rehabilitated 1952; washed away in 1958
- Builder
- - Joseph C. Elliott of Payson, Illinois
- Design
- Covered Burr arch-truss
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 100.0 ft.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +39.48417, -91.99644 (decimal degrees)
39°29'03" N, 91°59'47" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 15/586305/4370988 (zone/easting/northing)
- Quadrangle map:
- Paris East
- Inventory numbers
- WGCB 25-69-04x (World Guide to Covered Bridges number)
BH 22125 (Bridgehunter.com ID)
Update Log
- June 8, 2019: New photo from Joe Sonderman
- May 15, 2018: New photo from Rusty Weisman
- February 11, 2005: Posted new photos
Sources
- "Missouri's Covered Bridges" - Article by Dorothy Caldwell in the Jan. 1967 issue of Missouri Historical Review (Vol. LXI, No. 2)
- Rusty Weisman
- Joe Sonderman
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the bridge pictured on the post card is the Union covered Bridge. It is still in existance (one of 4 covered bridges in Missouri).